Gilles Deleuze's Luminous Philosophy
Develops the notion of 'luminism' as the conceptual spine of Deleuze's work

'The plane of immanence is entirely made up of Light', Deleuze writes in Cinema 1: The Movement-Image. Engaging the whole body of Deleuze's work, including less rehearsed texts such as 'The Actual and the Virtual', 'Lucretius and the Simulacrum', and his lectures on Spinoza, Hanjo Berressem traces the 'line of light' that runs through Deleuze's thought.

The focus on the philosophical luminism that suffuses Deleuze's work delivers a novel reading of Deleuzian philosophy from the perspective of the complementarity of the photon. Berressem reveals a wealth of surprising and brilliant insights for anyone with an interest in Deleuze and in the implications of Deleuze's philosophical photonics for historiography, literary studies, painting, and film.
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Gilles Deleuze's Luminous Philosophy
Develops the notion of 'luminism' as the conceptual spine of Deleuze's work

'The plane of immanence is entirely made up of Light', Deleuze writes in Cinema 1: The Movement-Image. Engaging the whole body of Deleuze's work, including less rehearsed texts such as 'The Actual and the Virtual', 'Lucretius and the Simulacrum', and his lectures on Spinoza, Hanjo Berressem traces the 'line of light' that runs through Deleuze's thought.

The focus on the philosophical luminism that suffuses Deleuze's work delivers a novel reading of Deleuzian philosophy from the perspective of the complementarity of the photon. Berressem reveals a wealth of surprising and brilliant insights for anyone with an interest in Deleuze and in the implications of Deleuze's philosophical photonics for historiography, literary studies, painting, and film.
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Gilles Deleuze's Luminous Philosophy

Gilles Deleuze's Luminous Philosophy

by Hanjo Berressem
Gilles Deleuze's Luminous Philosophy

Gilles Deleuze's Luminous Philosophy

by Hanjo Berressem

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Develops the notion of 'luminism' as the conceptual spine of Deleuze's work

'The plane of immanence is entirely made up of Light', Deleuze writes in Cinema 1: The Movement-Image. Engaging the whole body of Deleuze's work, including less rehearsed texts such as 'The Actual and the Virtual', 'Lucretius and the Simulacrum', and his lectures on Spinoza, Hanjo Berressem traces the 'line of light' that runs through Deleuze's thought.

The focus on the philosophical luminism that suffuses Deleuze's work delivers a novel reading of Deleuzian philosophy from the perspective of the complementarity of the photon. Berressem reveals a wealth of surprising and brilliant insights for anyone with an interest in Deleuze and in the implications of Deleuze's philosophical photonics for historiography, literary studies, painting, and film.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781474450713
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 12/17/2019
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.46(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hanjo Berressem is Professor of American Studies at the University of Cologne. He is the author of On the Gradual Contraction of Media in Movement (Bloomsbury, 2018), Lines of Desire: Reading Gombrowicz's Fiction with Lacan (Northwestern University Press, 1998) and Pynchon's Poetics: Interfacing Theory and Text (University of Illinois Press, 1992). He is co-editor of Near Encounters: Festschrift for Richard Martin (Peter Lang 1995) and several journal special issues.

Table of Contents

Overture

Introduction: Lightning And Crystals

1. The Birth Of Philosophy
2. Philosophy's Joy
3. Philosophical Times And Spaces
4. Luminous Philosophy

Conclusion: White Light, White Life

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University of Georgia Ronald Bogue

Berressem’s provocative reading of Deleuze argues for a single focus from the earliest to the final texts, and in pursuing this argument he offers a number of fresh and perceptive analyses of Deleuze’s principal volumes as well as a number of his secondary essays and interviews. There is a wealth of surprising and brilliant insights here for anyone with an interest in Deleuze’s thought and in contemporary philosophy as a whole.

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