Curriculum Vitae

Jeffrey A. Bell

Departmental address and phone Home address and phone
History and Political Science 557 Pelican Ridge Drive
Southeastern Louisiana University Madisonville, LA 70447
Hammond, LA 70402-0895 (985) 845-0531
(985) 549-3918
email: jbell@selu.edu

Areas of Specialization
twentieth-century continental philosophy, Deleuze, Nietzsche, Spinoza, Hume,
intellectual history, aesthetics.
Publications:
Books - Authored
Deleuzes Hume: Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish Enlightenment (Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press, 2009).

Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Difference
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006).
The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism (Toronto: University
of Toronto Press, 1998).
Books - Edited

Deleuze and History, editor, with Claire Colebrook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University
Press, 2009).

Industrialization and Imperialism: 1800-1914. A Biographical Dictionary, editor
(Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002).
Articles Peer-Reviewed
Charting the Road of Inquiry: Deleuzes Humean Pragmatics and the Challenge of
Badiou, The Southern Journal of Philosophy 44(3), 2006: pp. 399-425.

"The Director-function: Auteur theory and Poststructuralism," Fotogenia (Vol. 3, 1998).
Translated into Italian and published under the title, La funzione regista. La
teoria dellautore e il post-strutturalismo
"Philosophizing the Double-Bind: Deleuze reads Nietzsche," Philosophy
Today, Volume 39(4), Winter 1995.
"Phenomenology, Poststructuralism, and the Cinema of Time," in Film and
Philosophy,Volume II. Translated into Italian and published as, Il Cinema
Del Tempo: Deleuze, la fenomenologia e la differenza, in Deleuze E Il
Cinema Francese (Milano: Associazione Culturale Mimesis, 2002), pp. 31-
50.
"Response to Jonathan Beller's Essay, 'Cinema: Capital of the Twentieth
Century',"Postmodern Culture, Volume 5(1), September, 1994.
Chapters in Books
Deleuze and Selfless Sex: Undoing Kants Copernican Revolution, in Deleuze and Sex,
edited by Frida Beckman (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming
2011).

Modes of Violence: Whitehead, Deleuze, and the Displacement of Neoliberalism, in
On the Occasion: Butler on Whitehead (New York: Fordham University Press,
forthcoming 2011).

Undoing the Subject: Deleuze and the Makings of a Sustainable Life, in Issues in
Sustainable Design (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2010).

Whistle While You Work: Deleuze and the Spirit of Capitalism, in Deleuze and Ethics,
edited by Nathan Jun and Daniel Smith (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,
forthcoming).

Fear of Politics: Deleuze, Whitehead, and the Truth of Badiou, in Event and Decision:
Ontology and Politics in Badiou, Deleuze and Whitehead (Cambridge: Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, forthcoming 2010).

Nomad Thought: Deleuze, Whitehead, and the Adventure of Thinking, in Secrets of
Becoming: Negotiating Whitehead, Deleuze and Butler, edited by Roland Faber
and Andrea Stephenson (New York: Fordham University Press, forthcoming
2010).

Of the Rise and Progress of Philosophical Concepts: Deleuzes Humean
Historiography, in Deleuze and History, edited by Jeffrey A. Bell and Claire
Colebrook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009), pp. 54-71.

Transcendence and Immanence: Voegelin and Deleuze on the Conditions for Political
Order, in Representation, Ethics, and Sources of Order in the thought of Eric
Voegelin, Paul Ricouer, Emmanuel Levinas, and Gilles Deleuze. Peter A. Petrakis
and Cecil Eubanks, editors. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004),
pp. 93-120.

History in the Service of Life: A Dynamic Systems Approach to Intellectual History, in
Uniting the Liberal Arts: Core and Context, edited by Cainard Cowan and Scott
Lee (New York: University Press of America, 2002), pp. 125-31.

Book Reviews
Gilles Deleuzes Logic of Sense: A Critical Introduction and Guide, by James Williams,
reviewd in the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology (forthcoming).

Anti-Oedipus: A Readers Guide, by Ian Buchanan, reviewed in Symplok! (forthcoming).

History Undone: Towards a Deleuzo-Guattarian Philosophy of History, a review essay
of Jay Lamperts Deleuze and Guattaris Philosophy of History, in Deleuze
Studies Volume 2(1), 2008: 109-119.

Deleuze and Geophilosophy, by Mark Bonta and John Protevi, reviewed in The Journal
of the British Society for Phenomenology Vol. 37 (2), May 2006: 221-2.

Publications - Miscellaneous
Assemblage and Architecture, in The Deleuze Dictionary Updated Edition
(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming)
Eight contributions to From Polis to Empire The Ancient World. 800B.C. 500
A.D.Andrew Traver, editor. (Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2001):
Anaxagoras ofClatomenae, Anaximander of Miletus, Anaximenes of
Miletus, Heraclitusof Ephesus, Parmenides of Elea, Sextus Empiricus,
Socrates, andThales of Miletus.
"Thinking with Cinema: Deleuze and Film Theory," a review of Iris No. 23, Spring,
1997, in "Film-Philosophy: Electronic Salon," September 24, 1997
(www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy/files/writings.html).
Reviews of My Work

1. Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Difference

Parr, Adrian. Review Essay: Jeffrey A. Bell, Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos, in
Symplok!, Vol. 15, Numbers 1-2, 2007: 288-90.

Polat, Bican. Review Essay: Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos: Gilles Deleuze and the
Philosophy of Difference, in MLN 122.5 (2008): 1204-1208.

2. Deleuzes Hume: Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish Enlightenment

Margarit, Emilian. Review Essay: Whose Hume Is This? Jeffrey A. Bell, Deleuzes
Hume: Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish Enlighenment, in Meta: Resarch in
Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy, Vol I(2): 404-08.


Conference Papers
Whistle While You Work: Deleuze and the Spirit of Capitalism, a Plenary lecture
delivered at the Second International Deleuze Studies Conference, Cologne,
Germany, August 9, 2009.
From Commonplace to Common Cause: Deleuze, Natural Rights and the Image of
Politics, Plenary lecture presented at the First International Deleuze Studies
Conference, Cardiff, Wales, August 12, 2008.

Fear of Politics: Deleuze, Whitehead, and the Truth of Badiou, invited lecturer at the
Event and Decision Conference, Claremont, December 7, 2007.
The Time of Our Life: Deleuze, Culture, and Creative Events, presented at the annual
meeting for the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago,
November 8, 2007.

Problems in History: Truth, Creativity, and Social Multiplicities, presented as a
Research Seminar at the Royal Institute of Philosophy, University of Dundee,
September 27, 2006.

Instituting Culture: Hume, Deleuze, and the Problems of the Scottish Enlightenment,
presented at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh,
September 26, 2006.

Charting the Road of Inquiry: Experimental Philosophy and Difference in Hume, Peirce,
and Deleuze, presented at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential
Philosophy, Salt Lake City, October 20, 2005.
Competitive Association and Creative Genius: An Essay on Alexander Gerards Theory
of Genius, presented at the Third International Reid Symposium on Scottish
Philosophy, Aberdeen Scotland, July 14, 2004.
Between Individualism and Socialism: Deleuzes Micropolitics of Desire, presented
at the Association for Political Theory, Inaugural Conference, Grand Rapids,
Michigan, October 17, 2003.
Beyond Beautiful and Ugly: Non-dual Thinking and Aesthetic Theory, presented at
the Rocky Mountain Division of the American Society for Aesthetics, Santa Fe,
New Mexico, July 13, 2003.
Living Eternally: Spinoza on Self-Cause, Teleology, and Self-Preservation, presented
at the North American Spinoza Society, Pacific Division Meeting, San
Francisco, March 23, 2003.
Charting the Causes of Intellectual Creativity: The Case of the Scottish
Enlightenment, presented at the International Society for Intellectual History,
Cambridge, England, July 27, 2001.
The Symbolism of Chaos in Twelfth Century Europe, presented at
International Society for Intellectual History, Chicago, Illinois,
September 22, 2000.
Transcendence and Immanence: Voegelin and Deleuze on the Conditions
for Political Order, presented at American Political Science
Association, Washington, D.C., September 9, 2000.
"The Director-function: Auteur Theory and Poststructuralism," presented at the American
Society for Aesthetics, Rocky Mountain Division, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July
17, 1998.

"Gilles Deleuze and Film: The Time-Image and the Impossibility of Thought,"
presented at the International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Irvine,
California, May 7, 1998.
"Deleuze and Guattari, or On How to Become a Body Without Organs," presented at
the European Studies Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, October 4, 1997.
"Montaigne as Core Text: Self-Discovery/Self-Creation," presented at the Association
for Core Texts and Courses, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 11, 1997.
"Nietzsche's Music: Beyond Romanticism and Modernism," presented at
the European Studies Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, October 4,
1996.
"Nietzsche, Music, and the Transcendental Deduction," presented at the 1996 Rocky
Mountain Division of the American Society for Aesthetics, Santa Fe, NM, July
14.
"Deleuze and Cinema: Reversing the Tradition," presented at the 1995 meeting of the
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago, Il., October
14.
"Aesthetics: The Legacy of Montaigne," presented at the European Studies
Conference,Omaha, Nebraska, October 6, 1995.
"Nietzsche on Being a Good European," presented at the European Studies
Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, October 7, 1994.
Phenomenology and the Cinema of Time, presented at the Louisiana State Philosophy
Convention, Baton Rouge, 1992.


Professional Memberships

Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
The American Philosophical Association
International Association for Philosophy and Literature

Invited Evaluations of Ph.D. Dissertations

Supervisor: Dr. Jeffrey Malpas
University: University of Tasmania
Dissertation: Transformation in Knowledge: The Aristotelian Concepts of Actuality and
Potentiality and the Cartesian Model
Student: Andrew Piskun

Editorial Boards and Committees
Edinburgh University Press advisory editor
Deleuze Studies advisory board
Whitehead Research Project (Claremont Graduate School) invited member
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research peer reviewer

Grants and Awards
Fay Warren Reimers Distinguished Professorship, College of Arts, Humanities and
Social Sciences, Southeastern Louisiana University, 2007-10.

Visiting Research Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities,
Edinburgh (July October, 2006)

C. Howard Nichols Professorship in History and Political Science (2002-2005)

Southeastern Louisiana University Faculty Development Grant (Summer 2001,
Summer 2004).

Tulane University Graduate Fellowship (1986-87).