Deleuze and Politics (Hardcover)

Deleuze was intensely aware of the need for philosophy to take an active part in shaping and critiquing the world. Philosophy, as Deleuze saw it, engages in politics by inventing new concepts and using them as weapons against opinion, the ultimate barrier to thought. He did not specify a particular political program, nor espouse a particular political dogma. Politics for Deleuze was always a matter of experiment and invention in the search for the revolutionary path that would finally deliver us from the baleful enchantments of capitalism. Deleuze and Politics brings together some of the most important Deleuze scholars in the field today to explore and explain Deleuze's political philosophy.
The essays in this volume focus on three key issues:
*The ontology of Deleuze's political philosophy
*The philosophical debate between Deleuze and contemporary critical theory
*The application of Deleuze's political philosophy to real-world events
Deleuze and Politics will be of interest to cultural studies, philosophy and politics students.
Contributors include: Ian Buchanan, Claire Colebrook, Manuel DeLanda, Isabelle Garo, Eugene W. Holland, Ralf Krause, Gregg Lambert, Philippe Mengue, Paul Patton, Jason Read, Marc RAlli, Nicholas Thoburn and Janell Watson.
CONTENTS:
Introduction, Ian Buchanan and Nicholas Thoburn
1. Power, Theory and Praxis, Ian Buchanan
2. Deleuze and the Political Ontology of 'The Friend' (philos), Gregg Lambert
3. Molecular Revolutions: the Paradox of Politics in the Work of Gilles Deleuze, Isabelle Garo
4. Schizoanalysis, Nomadology, Fascism, Eugene W. Holland
5. What is a Militant?, Nicholas Thoburn
6. Bourgeois Thermodynamics, Claire Colebrook
7. The Age of Cynicism: Deleuze and Guattari on the Production of Subjectivity in Capitalism, Jason Read
8. Deleuze, Materialism and Politics, Manuel DeLanda
9. Becoming-Democratic, Paul Patton
10. Theorising European Ethnic Politics with Deleuze and Guattari, Janell Watson
11. People and Fabulation, Philippe Mengue
12. Micropolitical Associations, Ralf Krause and Marc RAlli

General

Imprint:	Edinburgh University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Deleuze Connections
Release date:	May 2008
First published:	September 2008
Editors:	Ian Buchanan • Nicholas Thoburn
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-7486-3287-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
LSN:	0-7486-3287-5
Barcode:	9780748632879

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