Overview: Provides the first critical close reading of Deleuze’s complex and understudied final monograph.Situates the baroque ‘crisis of reason’ within ongoing research on religion, art, and nature in post-Kan.This book, itself a study of two books on the Baroque, proposes a pair of related theses: one interpretive, the other argumentative. The first, enveloped in the second, holds that the significance of allegory Gilles Deleuze recognized in Walter Benjamin’s 1928 monograph on seventeenth century drama is itself attested in key aspects of Kantian, Leibnizian, and Platonic philosophy (to wi
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