Thinking with Deleuze

by Ronald Bogue

These 20 essays by Ronald Bogue on Gille Deleuze's though touch on cinema, music, theatre, painting, fiction, education, ecology, ethology, politics, technology and philosophy. He creates paradigmatic occasions of thinking with Deleuze – thinking with him and through him, following diverse lines of his thought and engaging concepts to extend his thought into areas Deleuze did not explore. Every one of these frequently cited, classic essays has been reworked to bring them up-to-date with the latest research in Deleuze Studies. Each offers a separate entry into Deleuze’s thought; together they illuminate the pivotal role the arts play in the political project of inventing a people to come and the broader project of promoting an ecologically viable new earth.

Genres: Philosophy

400 pages, Hardcover

Published January 15, 2019

Reviews

[Charles · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am tempted to say that this collection of fine essays is the culmination of a brilliant career, but I suspect that Ron Bogue has a few more volumes in him yet, if his continued participation in Deleuze/Guattari conferences is any indication. I heard many of these chapters as earlier talks, but it is a wonderful thing to have all of these essays developed and collected. The opening section, "Thinking Otherwise", has but one chapter, "The Master Apprentice", and is a magnificent opening explanation of the teacher-student role inherent in all of Deleuze's works. The five other sections -- II. The Possible and a People to Come, III. Music and Philosophy, IV. Literature and Philosophy, V. Sight, Sound and Language, VI. Nature -- reflect at once Bogue's lifelong commitments in his previous writing on Deleuze, and also his growing interests in the political and the ecological. All in all, this is a superb reference text, one to which I will return frequently since it helps stimulate my own "thinking with Deleuze".