Time and History in Deleuze and Serres

by Bernd Herzogenrath (Editor)

Overview

For Gilles Deleuze, time is 'out of joint'. For Michel Serres, it is 'a crumpled handkerchief'. In both of these concepts, explicit references are made to the non-linear dynamics of Chaos and Complexity theory, as well as the New Sciences. The groundbreaking work of these key thinkers has the potential to instigate a radical break from traditional existentialist theories of time and history, affording us the opportunity to view history and historical events as a complex, non-linear system of feedback-loops, couplings and interfaces.

In this collection, the first to address the comparative historiographies of Deleuze and Serres, twelve leading experts - including William Connolly, Eugene Holland, Claire Colebrook and Elizabeth Grosz - examine these alternative concepts of time and history, exposing critical arguments in this important and emerging field of research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441185709
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/15/2011
Series:	Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	372 KB

About the Author

Bernd Herzogenrath is Professor of American Studies at the University of Frankfurt, Germany.
Bernd Herzogenrath is Professor of American literature and culture at Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is the author of An Art of Desire: Reading Paul Auster (1999) and An American Body|Politic: A Deleuzian Approach (2010) and editor of The Farthest Place: The Music of John Luther Adams (2012) and Deleuze|Guattari&Ecology (2009). His latest publications include the collections The Films of Bill Morrison. Aesthetics of the Archive (2017), Film as Philosophy (2017), and Practical Aesthetics (Bloomsbury, 2020).

Table of Contents

Introduction\1. Non-Linear Historical Materialism; Or,What is Revolutionary in Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy of History?, Eugene W. Holland\2. Time Folded and Crumpled: Time, History, Self-Organization and the Methodology of Michel Serres, Kevin Clayton\3. Michel Serres: From the History of Mathematics to Critical History, David Webb \ 4. Deleuze, Foucault and History, Paul Patton\5. Ulyssean Trajectories: A (New) Look at Michel Serres's Topology of Time, Maria Assad\6. Posthuman Humanities, Claire Colebrook   \7. Deleuze on Bergsonian Duration and Nietzsche's "Eternal Return", Nathan Widder\8. Time Out of Joint, Elizabeth Grosz\9. The Crumpled Handkerchief, William Connolly and Jane Bennett\10.  A Physical Theory of Heredity/Heresy: The Education of Henry Adams, Bernd Herzogenrath\11. Crystal History: 'You Pick Up the Pieces. You Connect the Dots', Hanjo Berressem\Bibliography  Index

Editorial Reviews

This book definitely fills a gap in the scholarly literature. There did not yet exist a book on the resonances between the philosophies of Michel Serres and Gilles Deleuze, resonances that clearly exist and that were also confirmed by Michel Serres himself in the 1995 interview with Hari Kunzru.[1] Filling this gap, this edited volume at the same time helps to relieve the lack of extended scholarly literature on the work of Michel Serres in particular.” —Judith Wambacq, Ghent University (Belgium), H-France Review

“resonances between the philosophies of Michel Serres and Gilles Deleuze, resonances that clearly exist and that were also confirmed by Michel Serres himself in the 1995 interview with Hari Kunzru.[1] Filling this gap, this edited volume at the same time helps to relieve the lack of extended scholarly literature on the work of Michel Serres in particular.” —Judith Wambacq, Ghent University (Belgium), H-France Review

From the Publisher

resonances between the philosophies of Michel Serres and Gilles Deleuze, resonances that clearly exist and that were also confirmed by Michel Serres himself in the 1995 interview with Hari Kunzru.[1] Filling this gap, this edited volume at the same time helps to relieve the lack of extended scholarly literature on the work of Michel Serres in particular.

Judith Wambacq