Signature of the World 'What is Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy?

by Alliez, Eric; Albert, Eliot Ross

• ISBN13: 9780826456212
• ISBN10: 0826456219
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-30
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Tuch contemporary philosophy has revelled in declaring the end of metaphysics, of ontology, and sometimes of philosophy itself. In sharp contrast, The Signature of the World is a forceful reminder of the power of philosophy and the need for a reinvention of metaphysics. The Signature of the World focuses on one of the most influential works of contemporary philosophy: What is Philosophy? by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, their last joint work after the revolutionary texts, Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus. The Signature of the World sets What is Philosophy? in the context of earlier work by the two theorists and the work of both analytic philosophers and continental theorists.

Author Biography

Eric Alliez is currently visiting professor at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Karlsruhe, Germany. He is a former Directeur de programme at the College International de Philosophie and Chair of Aesthetics at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Vienna

Table of Contents

Presentation by Heinz Wismann	vii
The Coloured Thickness of a Problem. Preface	ix
Alberto Toscano
Notes and Acknowledgements	xxvii
Introduction	1	(4)
The Ethics of Philosophy	5	(28)
The Aetiology of Science	33	(20)
Onto-Ethologics	53	(32)
Appendix I: Deleuze's Virtual Philosophy	85	(20)
Appendix II: On the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction to Matter	105	(12)
Index	117