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Filth: Dirt, Disgust, and Modern Life (review)

insistent claim that the common be the conditions of possibility for all determinations (systems and identity). For Nietzsche, the uncommon provided the conditions for philosophical thinking. That is, according to Nietzsche the exceptional is only ever an expression of the common, and for this reason Hegel propounds a slave mentality, whereby the unique is always reduced to the common herd. Bell doesn’t address the importance of both Marx and Freud in the development of a Deleuzian philosophy of difference. However, he does expose another philosophical trajectory, one that to date has tended to slip into the shadows amidst Deleuzian scholars and commentators. That is, he foregrounds Deleuze’s philosophical connection and departure from Heidegger, Aristotle, and Artaud, all the while clarifying for the reader how Deleuze’s approach relates to and is at variance with traditional metaphysics. It is here where some of the most exciting passages of the book appear because Bell charts territory that has been largely neglected, and in so doing he exposes the importance of Deleuze for other philosophical camps that are situated more within an analytic tradition. The focus of this book is on Deleuze’s philosophy of difference, more specifically how the idea of difference in and of itself is used to develop a broader philosophical project committed to engendering thinking into thought. Bell has provided a clear and erudite analysis for scholars of Deleuze and others who are less familiar with his work but whose scholastic focus is on the theme of difference throughout Continental philosophy. In this way, Bell has provided an important contribution to the philosophical study of Deleuze within the broader history of ideas.