Deleuze and Politics

by Ian Buchanan (Editor), Nicholas Thoburn (Editor)

Overview

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 Rölli, Nicholas Thoburn and Janell Watson

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748632886
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	05/20/2008
Series:	Deleuze Connections
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Ian Buchanan is Professor of Cultural Studies and Critical Theory at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is the founding editor of the journal Deleuze and Guattari Studies and the author of Assemblage Theory and Method (Bloomsbury, 2020).

Nicholas Thoburn is a Lecturer in Sociology and Cultural Theory at the University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Ian Buchanan and Nicholas Thoburn1. Power, Theory and Praxis, Ian Buchanan2. Deleuze and the Political Ontology of ‘The Friend’ (philos), Gregg Lambert3. Molecular Revolutions: the Paradox of Politics in the Work of Gilles Deleuze, Isabelle Garo4. Schizoanalysis, Nomadology, Fascism, Eugene W. Holland5. What is a Militant?, Nicholas Thoburn6. Bourgeois Thermodynamics, Claire Colebrook7. The Age of Cynicism: Deleuze and Guattari on the Production of Subjectivity in Capitalism, Jason Read8. Deleuze, Materialism and Politics, Manuel DeLanda9. Becoming-Democratic, Paul Patton10. Theorising European Ethnic Politics with Deleuze and Guattari, Janell Watson11. People and Fabulation, Philippe Mengue12. Micropolitical Associations, Ralf Krause and Marc Rölli