Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy of Freedom

Dorothea Olkowski is Professor and former Chair of Philosophy, Director of Humanities, and Director of Cognitive Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA. She is the author or editor of ten books including Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn (2012), The Universal (In the Realm of the Sensible) (2007), and Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation (1999).Eftichis Pirovolakis is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Peloponnese, Greece. He works on twentieth-century continental philosophy and, more specifically, on the relation between phenomenology, hermeneutics and deconstruction. Pirovolakis has published articles in, among other journals, Philosophy Today, Word and Text and Literature, Interpretation, Theory. He is the author of Reading Derrida and Ricoeur: Improbable Encounters between Deconstruction and Hermeneutics (2010).

"The essays here are carefully wrought and thought-provoking, and will reward experienced readers with either clear restatements of established points (no mean feat with thinkers as difficult as Deleuze and Guattari) or with new approaches (also noteworthy now that Anglophone scholarly work on, or inspired by, Deleuze and Guattari, is well into its third decade). In other words, the collection is useful both in its "centripetal" function of deepening our understanding of some familiar points and in its "centrifugal" function of pointing us outward into multiple discourses and practices into which Deleuze scholarship can lead." – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"This is a highly innovative and provocative engagement with Deleuze’s thought that opens up new possibilities of thinking not only about the idea of freedom but also life in a political community." – Andreja Zevnik, University of Manchester, UK"This outstanding collection sheds new light on key Deleuzean concepts and on the concepts of freedom implicit in the work with Guattari. It includes new work by several leading Deleuze scholars that significantly advances the understanding and development of Deleuzean philosophy." – Paul Patton, University of New South Wales, Australia

• Introduction: Freedom’s Refrains, Deleuze, Guattari, and PhilosophyDorothea OlkowskiTranslator’s PrologueConstantin V. BoundasPart I: Infinite Speeds and the Machine1. Deleuze and the Freedom of the MachinesJean-Clet Martin2. Infinite Speeds and Practical Reason: A Kinematics of the Concept in What is Philosophy?Michael ArdolinePart II: Philosophy and Language3. Try Madness: Creation and the Crystalline BrainDorothea Olkowski4. Sense and Literality: Why There Are No Metaphors in Deleuze’s PhilosophyDaniel W. Smith5. Who are Deleuze’s Conceptual Personae?Gregg LambertPart III: Beyond Politics6. Kafka and Melville: The Same Struggle for a People to Come?Catarina Pombo Nabais7. Affective Politics and "Crisis": The Examples of the HIV-positive Women’s Public Denouncement and of the Refugees’ ConfinementSotiria-Ismini Gounari8. Political Improvisation and "the Long March through the Institutions"Eugene W. Holland9. Geophilosophy and Revolution in Gilles DeleuzeMohamed MoufliPart IV: Art and Creation10. Dismantling the Land(scape), Dismantling the FacePhilippe Mengue11. Intensive Difference and SubjectivationsPascale CritonPart V: Deleuze and Others12. Pluralism = Monism: What Deleuze Learns from Nietzsche and SpinozaAlan Schrift13. Deleuze and Guattari’s Geodynamism and Husserl’s Geostatism: Two Cosmological Perspectives Alain Beaulieu14. Affirmations of the False and Bifurcations of the True: Deleuze’s Dialetheic and Stoic FatalismCorry Shores