Dissertation, Dundee University (
2011)
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Abstract
This investigation constitutes an attempt towards (1) understanding issues and
problems relating to the notions of one, many, part and whole in Parmenides and
Plato; (2) extracting conditions for a successful account of multiplicity and parthood;
(3) surveying Deleuzian conceptions and uses of these notions; (4) appraising the
extent to which Deleuze’s metaphysics can answer some of these ancient problems
concerning the status of multiplicity and the nature of mereological composition, that
is, of the relations that pertain between parts and the wholes that they compose.