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Deleuze’s Literary Clinic: Criticism and the Politics of Symptoms

By Aidan Tynan

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
0748650555, 978-0-7486-5055-2, 978-0-7486-5056-9, 0748650563, 978-0-7486-5057-6, 978-0-7486-5058-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
816 kB (835163 bytes)
Series
Plateaus: New Directions in Deleuze Studies
Edition
1
Pages
200\201
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

The first study of Deleuze's critical and clinical project. Aidan Tynan addresses Deleuze's assertion that 'literature is an enterprise of health' and shows how a concern of health and illness was a characteristic of his philosophy as a whole, from his earliest works to his groundbreaking collaborations with Guattari, to his final, enigmatic statements on 'life'.He explains why alcoholism, anorexia, manic depression and schizophrenia are key concepts in Deleuze's literary theory, and shows how, with the turn to schizoanalysis, literature takes on a crucial political and ethical role in helping us to diagnose our present pathologies and articulate the possibilities of a health to come.

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