Deleuze and the Genesis of Representation

by Joe Hughes

Deleuze and the Genesis of Representation is a systematic study of three of Deleuze's central Difference and Repetition, The Logic of Sense and, with Guattari, Anti-Oedipus. Hughes shows how each of these three works develops the Husserlian problem of genetic constitution. After an innovative reading of Husserl's late work, Hughes turns to a detailed study of the conceptual structures of Deleuze's three books. He demonstrates that each book is surprisingly similar in its structure and that all three function as nearly identical accounts of the genesis of representation.


In a highly original and crucial contribution to Deleuze Studies, this book offers a provocative perspective on many of the questions Deleuze's work has What is the status of representation? Of subjectivity? What is a body without organs? How is the virtual produced, and what exactly is its function within Deleuze's thought as a whole? By contextualizing Deleuze's thought within the radicalization of phenomenology, Hughes is able to suggest solutions to these questions that will be as compelling as they are controversial.

208 pages, Paperback

First published August 19, 2008

Reviews

[Zoonanism · Rating 2 out of 5]

Reading Joe Hughes was not as painful as reading the figure he writes about. In many parts of the book he adds as he attempts to array the chimerical syntheses posited by his holiness into neat arrays, that the works are not really clear on this or that, hence some speculation is essential.

My favorite was Chapther 5, titled Social Production. What is asserted is clear and so too how wrong it is as a historical account. The rest are 'not even wrong'.

If 'Representation' -supposing the word is used across the works considered here, with the same sense as in normal English- is the end product of processes, mental, physical or historical, then what one certainly dos not get are accounts of discoveries about such processes or justification for assertions made about them.

[B.D.N. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent.

[Alex Romero · Rating 3 out of 5]

muy buen libro, aunque no esté nada de acuerdo con lo que dice