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Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism explores the
multi-faceted and formative impact of Gilles Deleuze on the
development and our understanding of modernist thought in its
philosophical, literary, and more broadly cultural manifestations.
Gilles Deleuze himself rethought philosophical history with a
series of books and essays on individual philosophers such as Kant,
Spinoza, Leibniz, Nietzsche, and Bergson and authors such as
Proust, Kafka, Beckett and Woolf, on the one hand, and Bacon,
Messiaen, and Pollock, among others, in other arts. This volume
acknowledges Deleuze's profound impact on a century of art and
thought and the origin of that impact in his own understanding of
modernism. Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism begins by
"conceptualizing" Deleuze by offering close readings of some of his
most important works. The contributors offer new readings that
illuminate the context of Deleuze's work, either by reading one of
Deleuze's texts against or in the context of his entire body of
work or by challenging Deleuze's readings of other philosophers. A
central section on Deleuze and his aesthetics maps the
relationships between Deleuze's thought and modernist literature.
The volume's final section features an extended glossary of
Deleuze's key terms, with each definition having its own expert
contributor.
Henri Bergson is frequently cited amongst the holy trinity of major
influences on Modernism-literary and otherwise-alongside Sigmund
Freud and William James. Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism has
re-popularized Bergson for the 21st century, so much so that,
perhaps, our Bergson is Deleuze's Bergson. Despite renewed interest
in Bergson, his influence remains understudied and consequently
undervalued. While books examining the impact of Freud and James on
Modernism abound, Bergson's impact, though widely acknowledged, has
been closely examined much more rarely. Understanding Bergson,
Understanding Modernism remedies this deficiency in three ways.
First, it offers close readings and critiques of six pivotal texts.
Second, it reassesses Bergson's impact on Modernism while also
tracing his continuing importance to literature, media, and
philosophy throughout the twentieth and into the 21st century. In
its final section it provides an extended glossary of Bergsonian
terms, complete with extensive examples and citations of their use
across his texts. The glossary also maps the influence of Bergson's
work by including entries on related writers, all of whom Bergson
either corresponded with or critiqued.
Not a Big Deal asks how texts might work to unsettle readers at a
moment when unwelcome information is rejected as fake news or
rebutted with alternative facts. When readers already recognize
“defamiliarizing texts” as a category, how might texts still
work toward the goals of defamiliarization? When readers refuse to
grapple with texts that might shock them or disrupt their extant
views about politics, race, or even narrative itself, how can texts
elicit real engagement? This study draws from philosophy,
narratology, social neuroscience, critical theory, and numerous
other disciplines to read texts ranging from novels and short
stories to graphic novels, films, and fiction broadcasted and
podcasted—all of which enact curious strategies of disruption
while insisting that they do no such thing. Following a model
traceable to Toni Morrison’s criticism and short fiction, texts
by Kyle Baker, Scott Brown, Percival Everett, Daniel Handler, David
Robert Mitchell, Jordan Peele, and Colson Whitehead suggest new
strategies for unsettling the category-based perceptions behind
what Everett calls “the insidious colonialist reader’s eye
which infects America.” Not a Big Deal examines problems in our
perception of the world and of texts and insists we do the same.
Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism explores the
multi-faceted and formative impact of Gilles Deleuze on the
development and our understanding of modernist thought in its
philosophical, literary, and more broadly cultural manifestations.
Gilles Deleuze himself rethought philosophical history with a
series of books and essays on individual philosophers such as Kant,
Spinoza, Leibniz, Nietzsche, and Bergson and authors such as
Proust, Kafka, Beckett and Woolf, on the one hand, and Bacon,
Messiaen, and Pollock, among others, in other arts. This volume
acknowledges Deleuze's profound impact on a century of art and
thought and the origin of that impact in his own understanding of
modernism. Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism begins by
"conceptualizing" Deleuze by offering close readings of some of his
most important works. The contributors offer new readings that
illuminate the context of Deleuze's work, either by reading one of
Deleuze's texts against or in the context of his entire body of
work or by challenging Deleuze's readings of other philosophers. A
central section on Deleuze and his aesthetics maps the
relationships between Deleuze's thought and modernist literature.
The volume's final section features an extended glossary of
Deleuze's key terms, with each definition having its own expert
contributor.
Henri Bergson is frequently cited amongst the holy trinity of major
influences on Modernism-literary and otherwise-alongside Sigmund
Freud and William James. Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism has
re-popularized Bergson for the 21st century, so much so that,
perhaps, our Bergson is Deleuze's Bergson. Despite renewed interest
in Bergson, his influence remains understudied and consequently
undervalued. While books examining the impact of Freud and James on
Modernism abound, Bergson's impact, though widely acknowledged, has
been closely examined much more rarely. Understanding Bergson,
Understanding Modernism remedies this deficiency in three ways.
First, it offers close readings and critiques of six pivotal texts.
Second, it reassesses Bergson's impact on Modernism while also
tracing his continuing importance to literature, media, and
philosophy throughout the twentieth and into the 21st century. In
its final section it provides an extended glossary of Bergsonian
terms, complete with extensive examples and citations of their use
across his texts. The glossary also maps the influence of Bergson's
work by including entries on related writers, all of whom Bergson
either corresponded with or critiqued.
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