Gilles Deleuze is considered one of the most important French philosophers of the twentieth century. Eleanor Kaufman situates Deleuze in relation to others of his generation, such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Klossowski, Maurice Blanchot, and Claude Levi-Strauss, and she engages the provocative readings of Deleuze by Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek. Deleuze, The Dark Precursor is organized around three themes that critically overlap: dialectic, structure, and being. Kaufman argues that Deleuze's work is deeply concerned with these concepts, even when he advocates for the seemingly opposite notions of univocity, nonsense, and becoming. By drawing on scholastic thought and reading somewhat against the grain, Kaufman suggests that these often-maligned themes allow for a nuanced, even positive reflection on apparently negative states of being, such as extreme inertia. This attention to the negative or minor category has implications that extend beyond philosophy and into feminist theory, film, American studies, anthropology, and architecture.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13
9781421405896
eBay Product ID (ePID)
115978415
Product Key Features
Book Title
Deleuze, the Dark Precursor: Dialectic, Structure, Being
Author
Eleanor Kaufman
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Popular Philosophy
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
476g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Eleanor Kaufman
Series Title
Rethinking Theory
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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