Deleuze and Philosophy

by Keith Ansell-Pearson (Editor)

The work of Gilles Deleuze has had an impact far beyond philosophy. He is among Foucault and Derrida as one of the most cited of all contemporary French thinkers. Never a student 'of' philosophy, Deleuze was always philosophical and many influential poststructuralist and postmodernist texts can be traced to his celebrated resurrection of Nietzsche against Hegel in his Nietzsche and Philosophy , from which this collection draws its title.
This searching new collection considers Deleuze's relation to the philosophical tradition and beyond to the future of philosophy, science and technology. In addition to considering Deleuze's imaginative readings of classic figures such as Spinoza and Kant, the essays also point to the meaning of Deleuze on 'monstrous' and machinic thinking, on philosophy and engineering, on philosophy and biology, on modern painting and literature.
Deleuze and Philosophy continues the spirit of experimentation and invention that features in Deleuze's work and will appeal to those studying across philosophy, social theory, literature and cultural studies who themselves are seeking new paradigms of thought.

Genres: Philosophy

288 pages, Paperback

First published June 12, 1997

About the author

Keith Ansell-Pearson joined Warwick's Philosophy Department in 1993 and has held a Personal Chair since 1998. He did his graduate studies at the University of Sussex. He has presented lectures around the world, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United States. In 2013/14 he was Senior Visiting Research Fellow in the Humanities at Rice University.

Reviews

[Josh Carswell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Strong selection of Deleuzian essays, divided into four sections. Part I places Deleuze within or alongside the tradition of philosophy, illustrating his often tangential or antithetical relationship with predecessors such as Kant, Spinoza and Nietzsche. Next are a series of contributions exploring Deleuze, politics and literature - or, in reference to his and Guattari's work on Kafka, "minor politics" and "minor literature". The third part attempts to bring together Deleuze's approach to biophilosophy, highlighting an area of inquiry "often neglected in the English-speaking reception of continental philosophy". Here the philosopher's "machinic thinking" plays a large part in cognizing systems of selection and distribution, and also feeds back upon the fields of AI, complexity and systems theory that were no doubt in academic vogue at the time. Finally, Deleuze is explored culturally, with two essays on his observations on J. M. W. Turner and impact on the electronic subcultures of hip-hop, techno and jungle.

Of the bunch highlights include Iain Hamilton Grant's interpretation of "The Geology of Morals" (in A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia) as "machinic demonology", and Keith Ansell-Pearson's own lengthy contribution on the "viroid" politics inherent in Deleuze's machinism. Special mention also has to go to Robin Mackay and the aforementioned chapter on electronic music "wildstyle", which, littered as it is with embarrassing blockquotes that suggest your dad describing Aphex Twin, still reveals an insight into a particular strain of thought that breaks significantly with academicism and ungrounds any foundation Deleuze may have had in conventional scholarship (cf. Mark Fisher, Steve Goodman, Collapse Vol. III: Unknown Deleuze).

[amin ghazaei · Rating 2 out of 5]

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[sdv duras · Rating 5 out of 5]

wonderfully thought provoking collection.