As was noted in the introduction, the interpretative schema adopted in this book to delineate what we referred to as the ontology of anomalous individuation is largely indebted to the work of Gilbert Simondon. Without his contribution it would not have been possible to isolate those critical junctures in the development of post-Kantian thought that reveal the insistent presence and considerable repercussions of the problem of individuation. By extending the scope of the critical component of Simondon's project to encompass the investigation of relevant nodes in the philosophies of Kant, Nietzsche and Peirce, we have tried to show how the crucial prescription that underlies his thinking — to know the individual through individuation rather than individuation through the individual — can be put to work, how it can be used to expose philosophical problems and trajectories that would have otherwise remained obscure.¹In Chapters 1 and 2, this schema was enlisted to demonstrate how the criteria for individuality postulated by Kant sustain a dichotomy between autonomous and heteronomous modalities of individuation, as well as how a shift from the concern with intelligibility to a consideration of genesis and operation led Kant to enrich his account of the production of individuality and to postulate a transcendental-material continuum in his late speculations on the ether.