Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy of Freedom: Freedom's Refrains

ISBN-13: 9781032093840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 256 str.

Dorothea Olkowski; Eftichis Pirovolakis

Opis

This volume addresses the issue of freedom in the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari. The essays collected in the volume show that freedom has been understood in a remarkably narrow sense and that in fact freedom operates as the refrain in every realm of thought and creation.

Spis treści

Introduction: Freedom’s Refrains, Deleuze, Guattari, and Philosophy

Dorothea Olkowski

Translator’s Prologue

Constantin V. Boundas

Part I: Infinite Speeds and the Machine

1. Deleuze and the Freedom of the Machines

Jean-Clet Martin

2. Infinite Speeds and Practical Reason: A Kinematics of the Concept in What is Philosophy?

Michael Ardoline

Part II: Philosophy and Language

3. Try Madness: Creation and the Crystalline Brain

Dorothea Olkowski

4. Sense and Literality: Why There Are No Metaphors in Deleuze’s Philosophy

Daniel W. Smith

5. Who are Deleuze’s Conceptual Personae?

　Gregg Lambert

Part III: Beyond Politics

6. Kafka and Melville: The Same Struggle for a People to Come?

Catarina Pombo　Nabais

7. Affective Politics and "Crisis": The Examples of the HIV-positive Women’s Public Denouncement and of the Refugees’ Confinement

Sotiria-Ismini Gounari

8. Political Improvisation and "the Long March through the Institutions"

Eugene W. Holland

9. Geophilosophy and Revolution in Gilles Deleuze

Mohamed Moufli

Part IV: Art and Creation

10. Dismantling the Land(scape), Dismantling the Face

Philippe Mengue

11. Intensive Difference and Subjectivations

Pascale Criton

Part V: Deleuze and Others

12. Pluralism = Monism: What Deleuze Learns from Nietzsche and Spinoza

Alan Schrift

13. Deleuze and Guattari’s Geodynamism and Husserl’s Geostatism:

Two Cosmological Perspectives

Alain Beaulieu

14. Affirmations of the False and Bifurcations of the True: Deleuze’s Dialetheic and Stoic Fatalism

Corry Shores

O autorze

Dorothea Olkowski is Professor and former Chair of Philosophy, Director of Humanities, and Director of Cognitive Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA. She is the author or editor of ten books including　Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn (2012), The Universal (In the Realm of the Sensible) (2007), and Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation (1999).

Eftichis Pirovolakis is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Peloponnese, Greece. He works on twentieth-century continental philosophy and, more specifically, on the relation between phenomenology, hermeneutics and deconstruction. Pirovolakis has published articles in, among other journals, Philosophy Today, Word and Text and Literature, Interpretation, Theory. He is the author of Reading Derrida and Ricoeur: Improbable Encounters between Deconstruction and Hermeneutics (2010).