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Political Physics: Deleuze, Derrida and the Body Politic

By John Protevi

Book information

Publisher
The Athlone Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0485004267, 9780485004267
LCC
JC261 .P76 2001
Open Library ID
OL6790549M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13898157 bytes)
Series
Transversals: New Directions In Philosophy
Pages
256\256
Topic
Physics
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

This work crosses the work of two of the most influential thinkers at the start of the 21st Century, Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze. The book takes the reader on a transversal journey - employing Derridean analysis of the history of philosophy, Deleuzian creative dialogue and complexity theory - to cross the boundaries of philosophy and science. Derrida's concern with metaphysics is developed alongside Deleuze's critique of 'hylomorphism' - the doctrine that production is the imposition of order on chaos. The study attempts to opens a new future for philosophy by revealing the way complexity theory shows the order and creativity inherent in matter itself.

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