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

ISBN-13: 9780748650552 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 200 str.

Dr. Aidan Tynan

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: From Symptomatology to Schizoanalysis; Chapter 1: A Case of Thought; Chapter 2: The Paradox of the Body and the Genesis of Form and Content; Chapter 3: Symptoms, Repetition and the Productive Death Instinct; Chapter 4: The Identity of the Critical and the Clinical; Chapter 5: The People to Come; Conclusion; Bibliography