Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-254) and index.
Diagrammatic Immanence ; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Spinoza and Relational Immanence; 2 Diagrams of Structure: Categories and Functors; 3 Peirce and Semiotic Immanence; 4 Diagrams of Variation: Functor Categories and Presheaves; 5 Deleuze and Expressive Immanence; 6 Diagrams of Difference: Adjunctions and Topoi; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Spinoza, Peirce and Deleuze are, in different ways, philosophers of immanence. Rocco Gangle addresses the methodological questions raised by a commitment to immanence in terms of how diagrams may be used both as tools and as objects of philosophical investigation. Gangle integrates insights from Spinozist metaphysics, Peircean semiotics and Deleuzé⁰₉s philosophy of difference in conjunction with the formal operations of category theory. He introduces the methods of category theory from a philosophical and diagrammatic perspective in a way that will allow philosophers with little or no mathematical training to come to grips with this important field. Spinoza, Peirce and Deleuze are, in different ways, philosophers of immanence. Rocco Gangle addresses the methodological questions raised by a commitment to immanence in terms of how diagrams may be used both as tools and as objects of philosophical investigation. Gangle integrates insights from Spinozist metaphysics, Peircean semiotics and Deleuzé⁰₉s philosophy of difference in conjunction with the formal operations of category theory. He introduces the methods of category theory from a philosophical and diagrammatic perspective in a way that will allow philosophers with little or no mathematical training to come to grips with this important field.