Deleuze and Guattari Vol. 44 : An Introduction to the Politics of Desire

by Philip Goodchild

• ISBN13: 9780803976009
• ISBN10: 0803976003
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-12-23
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

This accessible book examines critically the writings of Deleuze and Guattari, clarifying the ideas of these two notoriously difficult thinkers without over-simplifying them.Divided into three sections - Knowledge, Power, and Liberation of Desire - the book provides a systematic account of the intellectual context as well as an exhaustive analysis of the key themes informing Deleuze and Guattari's work. It provides the framework for reading the important and influential study Capitalism and Schizophrenia and, with the needs of students in mind, explains the key concepts in Deleuze and Guattari's discussion of philosophy, art and politics. Definitive and incisive, the book will be invaluable in situating the philosophy of these two major figures within the perspective of the social and human sciences.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction: Knowledge, Power, Desire	1	(5)
Problem 1: What is philosophy?	6	(5)
PART I KNOWLEDGE	11	(62)
1 The Emergence of Desire	11	(33)
Problem 2: Crack open words...	12	(1)
Hume	12	(7)
Problem 3: On truth and illusion	19	(4)
Bergson	23	(5)
Nietzsche	28	(6)
Problem 4: On judgement and justice	34	(3)
Spinoza	37	(4)
Conclusion	41	(3)
2 The Abstract Machine	44	(21)
Problem 5: On knowing the social unconscious	44	(2)
The Plane of Immanence	46	(7)
The Creation of Concepts	53	(6)
Conceptual Personae	59	(6)
3 Geophilosophy	65	(8)
PART II POWER	73	(90)
4 Capitalism and Schizophrenia	73	(33)
Problem 6: On psychogenesis and perversion	75	(7)
Psychic Repression	82	(6)
The Psychic Production of Oedipus	88	(2)
Social Repression	90	(10)
The Social Production of Oedipus	100	(6)
5 Escaping Dominant Discourses	106	(40)
Oedipalized Representation	106	(6)
Theoretical Discourses	112	(1)
Structuralism	112	(2)
Deconstruction	114	(4)
Marxism	118	(4)
Psychoanalysis	122	(5)
Nietzscheanism	127	(4)
Foucault	131	(4)
Feminism	135	(4)
Postmodernism	139	(5)
Conclusion	144	(2)
6 Against the Strata	146	(17)
Problem 7: On materialism	147	(1)
Subjectification	148	(3)
Signifiance	151	(5)
Organization and Segmentarity	156	(7)
PART III LIBERATION OF DESIRE	163	(48)
7 The Revolution of Desire	163	(16)
The Schizoanalytic Unconscious	165	(4)
Becoming-Revolutionary	169	(3)
The War-Machine	172	(2)
Problem 8: On the revaluation of values	174	(5)
8 The Liberation of Work	179	(17)
Repression of Work	179	(5)
Work and Art	184	(6)
Art and Liberation	190	(6)
9 The Society of Desire	196	(15)
Collective Activity	196	(3)
The Illusion of Ends	199	(4)
Virtual Utopia of Immanence	203	(2)
Problem 9: On ethics and becoming-Deleuzean	205	(6)
Conclusion	211	(3)
References	214	(3)
Glossary	217	(4)
Index	221