Deleuze And Politics

Deleuze was intensely aware of the need for philosophy to take an active partin shaping and critiquing the world. Philosophy as Deleuze saw it engages inpolitic... » 

Deleuze was intensely aware of the need for philosophy to take an active partin shaping and critiquing the world. Philosophy as Deleuze saw it engages inpolitics by inventing new concepts and using them as weapons against opinionthe ultimate barrier to thought. He did not specify a particular politicalprogram nor espouse a particular political dogma. Politics for Deleuze wasalways a matter of experiment and invention in the search for the revolutionarypath that would finally deliver us from the baleful enchantments of capitalism.Deleuze and Politics brings together some of the most important Deleuzescholars in the field today to explore and explain Deleuzes politicalphilosophy. The essays in this volume focus on three key issues The ontologyof Deleuzes political philosophy The philosophical debate between Deleuze andcontemporary critical theory The application of Deleuzes political philosophyto realworld events Deleuze and Politics will be of interest to culturalstudies philosophy and politics students. Contributors include Ian BuchananClaire Colebrook Manuel DeLanda Isabelle Garo Eugene W. Holland RalfKrause Gregg Lambert Philippe Mengue Paul Patton Jason Read Marc RlliNicholas Thoburn and Janell Watson. CONTENTS Introduction Ian Buchanan andNicholas Thoburn 1. Power Theory and Praxis Ian Buchanan 2. Deleuze and thePolitical Ontology of The Friend philos Gregg Lambert 3. MolecularRevolutions the Paradox of Politics in the Work of Gilles Deleuze IsabelleGaro 4. Schizoanalysis Nomadology Fascism Eugene W. Holland 5. What is aMilitant? Nicholas Thoburn 6. Bourgeois Thermodynamics Claire Colebrook 7.The Age of Cynicism Deleuze and Guattari on the Production of Subjectivity inCapitalism Jason Read 8. Deleuze Materialism and Politics Manuel DeLanda 9.BecomingDemocratic Paul Patton 10. Theorising European Ethnic Politics withDeleuze and Guattari Janell Watson 11. People and Fabulation Philippe Mengue12. Micropolitical Associations Ralf Krause and Marc Rlli «