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Out of This World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation

By Peter Hallward

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2009
ISBN
1844675556, 9781844675555
Open Library ID
OL22735325M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10978949 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
106\106
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

A controversial critique of an iconic philosopher.Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential French philosophers of the last century.This book aims to make sense of his fundamental project in the clearest possible terms, by engaging with the central idea that informs virtually all of his work: the equation of being and creativity. It explores the various ways in which, in order to affirm an unlimited creative power, Deleuze proceeds to dissolve whatever might restrict or mediate its expression, including the organisms, objects, representations, identities, and relations that this power generates along the way. Rather than a theorist of material complexity or relational difference, Out of this World argues that Deleuze is better read as a spiritual and extra-worldly philosopher. His philosophy leaves little room for processes of social or historical transformation, and still less for political relations of conflict or solidarity. Michel Foucault famously suggested that the 20th century would be known as 'Deleuzian'; this sympathetic but uncompromising new critique suggests that our Deleuzian century may soon be coming to a close.

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