Deleuze and the Meaning of Life

Deleuze and the Meaning of Life
Author: Claire Colebrook
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2010-01-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441154280

The intensification of interest in Deleuze over the last decade has coincided with the end of the linguistic paradigm in both continental and analytic philosophy. Indeed, the division between the two traditions appears to be closing and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze seems to be crucial to this convergence, as he is both indebted to the phenomenological tradition at the same time as he operates with concepts drawn from the sciences. Claire Colebrook explores these ideas and offers a new and alternative assessment of Deleuze's contribution to philosophy. She argues that while Deleuze does draw upon sciences that explain the emergence of language, art and philosophy, his own thought is distinguished by a discontinuist thesis: systems may emerge from tendencies of life but always have the capacity to operate without reference to their original aim. Colebrook makes new claims regarding how Deleuze's philosophy might be used to read contemporary art and thus offers an original and crucial contribution to the Deleuzian debate.

Deleuze and the Meaning of Life

Deleuze and the Meaning of Life
Author: Claire Colebrook
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2011-10-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441121153

The intensification of interest in Deleuze over the last decade has coincided with the end of the linguistic paradigm in both continental and analytic philosophy. Indeed, the division between the two traditions appears to be closing and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze seems to be crucial to this convergence, as he is both indebted to the phenomenological tradition at the same time as he operates with concepts drawn from the sciences. Claire Colebrook explores these ideas and offers a new and alternative assessment of Deleuze's contribution to philosophy. She argues that while Deleuze does draw upon sciences that explain the emergence of language, art and philosophy, his own thought is distinguished by a discontinuist thesis: systems may emerge from tendencies of life but always have the capacity to operate without reference to their original aim. Colebrook makes new claims regarding how Deleuze's philosophy might be used to read contemporary art and thus offers an original and crucial contribution to the Deleuzian debate.

Deleuze and Philosophy

Deleuze and Philosophy
Author: Constantin V. Boundas
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2006-07-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0748627197

Deleuze and Philosophy provides an exploration of the continuing philosophical relevance of Gilles Deleuze. This collection of essays uses Deleuze to move between thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Husserl, Hume, Locke, Kant, Foucault, Badiou and Agamben. As such the reader is left with a comprehensive understanding not just of the philosophy of Deleuze but how he can be situated within a much broader philosophical trajectory. Constantin Boundas has gathered together recent scholarship on Deleuze's philosophy by an acclaimed line-up of international contributors, all of whom seek to provide new and previously unexplored theoretical terrains that will be of interest to both the Deleuze specialist and student alike. Three of the essays are by key French Deleuzians whose work is not widely available in translation. This enticing collection is essential reading for anyone interested not just in Deleuze but in the history of philosophical ideas. Contributors include: Zsuzsa Baross, Veronique Bergen, Ronald Bogue, Bruce Baugh, Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook, Bela Egyed, Philippe Mengue, Dorothea Olkowski, Davide Panagia, Daniel W. Smith, Jeremie Valentin, Arnaud Villani.

Deleuze and the Body

Deleuze and the Body
Author: Laura Guillaume
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2011-03-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0748688048

This book will be important reading for those with an interest in Deleuze, but also in performance arts, film, and contemporary culture.

The Hermetic Deleuze

The Hermetic Deleuze
Author: Joshua Ramey
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2012-08-20
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 082235229X

In this book, Joshua Ramey examines the extent to which Gilles Deleuze's ethics, metaphysics, and politics were informed by, and can only be fully understood through, this hermetic tradition.

Deleuze and Ethics

Deleuze and Ethics
Author: Nathan Jun
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2011-05-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0748688285

Deleuze is perhaps best known for his influential works in philosophical interpretation; epistemology; metaphysics; and political economy. The essays in this collection explore, uncover, and trace the ethical dimension of Deleuzian philosophy along divers

Difference and Repetition

Difference and Repetition
Author: Gilles Deleuze
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2004-11-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441180125

img src="http://www.continuumbooks.com/pub/images/impactslogo.gif" align="left" Since its publication in 1968, "Difference and Repetition", an exposition of the critique of identity, has come to be considered a contemporary classic in philosophy and one of Deleuze's most important works. The text follows the development of two central concepts, those of pure difference and complex repetition. It shows how the two concepts are related, difference implying divergence and decentring, repetition being associated with displacement and disguising. The work moves deftly between Hegel, Kierkegaard, Freud, Althusser and Nietzsche to establish a fundamental critique of Western metaphysics, and has been a central text in initiating the shift in French thought - away from Hegel and Marx, towards Nietzsche and Freud.

Kafka

Kafka
Author: Gilles Deleuze
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1986
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780816615155

In Kafka Deleuze and Guattari free their subject from his (mis)intrepreters. In contrast to traditional readings that see in Kafka's work a case of Oedipalized neurosis or a flight into transcendence, guilt, and subjectivity, Deleuze and Guattari make a case for Kafka as a man of joy, a promoter of radical politics who resisted at every turn submission to frozen hierarchies.

Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition

Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition
Author: James Williams
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013-01-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0748668950

A new edition of this introduction to Deleuze's seminal work, Difference and Repetition, with new material on intensity, science and action and new engagements with Bryant, Sauvagnargues, Smith, Somers-Hall and de Beistegui.

Pure Immanence

Pure Immanence
Author: Gilles Deleuze
Publisher: Pure Immanence
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Empiricism
ISBN: 9781890951252

Essays by Gilles Deleuze on the search for a new empiricism. The essays in this book present a complex theme at the heart of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, what in his last writing he called simply "a life." They capture a problem that runs throughout his work--his long search for a new and superior empiricism. Announced in his first book, on David Hume, then taking off with his early studies of Nietzsche and Bergson, the problem of an "empiricist conversion" became central to Deleuze's work, in particular to his aesthetics and his conception of the art of cinema. In the new regime of communication and information-machines with which he thought we are confronted today, he came to believe that such a conversion, such an empiricism, such a new art and will-to-art, was what we need most. The last, seemingly minor question of "a life" is thus inseparable from Deleuze's striking image of philosophy not as a wisdom we already possess, but as a pure immanence of what is yet to come. Perhaps the full exploitation of that image, from one of the most original trajectories in contemporary philosophy, is also yet to come.