'The best introduction to Deleuze, and to the collective writings of Deleuze and Guattari, available yet! Claire Colebrook has produced a truly accessible pathway into the labyrinthine enchantments offered for contemporary thought by Deleuzianism, making concepts clear, showing their political and theoretical complexity, elaborating their social and artistic relevance. A wonderful, lucid opening onto the new worlds of Deleuze.'
Elizabeth Grosz, Rutgers University
'A wonderfully clear introduction to key Deleuzian concepts and to their effectiveness in fields ranging from ethics and politics to cinema, literary and cultural studies. Claire Colebrook provides a series of effortless transitions from Deleuze's philosophical concerns (eg: difference, representation, desire and affect) to concrete problems in a variety of fields. This book is an excellent guide to an important body of critical thought.'
Paul Patton, Professor of Philosophy, University of NSW
Foreword
Acknowledgements
The impact of Deleuze
A guide to key Deleuzean terms
Introduction
1. Beyond representation and structure
2. The politics of life and positive difference
3. Style and immanence
4. 'Doing philosophy': Interdisciplinarity
5. History of desire
6. Perception, time, cinema
Conclusion: Virtual freedom
Bibliography
Index
Claire Colebrook is Reader in the Department of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She is author of New Literary Histories, Ethics and Representation, and Gilles Deleuze, and coeditor with Ian Buchanan of Deleuze and Feminism.
