| Deleuze Beyond Badiou: Ontology, Multiplicity, and Event Contributor(s): Crockett, Clayton (Author) |
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ISBN: 0231530919 ISBN-13: 9780231530910 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $33.65 Product Type: Other - Other Formats Published: January 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Political - Philosophy | Movements - Deconstruction - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
| Dewey: 194 |
| LCCN: 2012023168 |
| Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and C |
| Physical Information: 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: First published in 1997, Alain Badiou's Deleuze: The Clamor of Being cast Gilles Deleuze as a secret philosopher of the One. In this work, Clayton Crockett rehabilitates Deleuze's position within contemporary political and philosophical thought, advancing an original reading of the thinker's major works and a constructive conception of his philosophical ontology. Through close readings of Deleuze's Difference and Repetition, Capitalism and Schizophrenia (with Felix Guattari), and Cinema 2, Crockett argues that Deleuze is anything but the austere, quietistic, and aristocratic intellectual Badiou had portrayed. Instead, Crockett underscores Deleuze's radical aesthetics and innovative scientific, political, and mathematical forms of thought. He also refutes the notion Deleuze retreated from politics toward the end of his life. Using Badiou's critique as a foil, Crockett maintains the profound continuity of Deleuze's work and builds a general interpretation of his more obscure formulations. |