Gilles Deleuze, Postcolonial Theory, and the Philosophy of Limit

AvRéda Bensmaïa,Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Does a philosopher have an ‘identity’? What kind of ‘identity’ is mobilized when the work of a philosopher becomes a major reference for certain schools of thought, as in the case of Gilles Deleuze and postcolonial theory? Have the promoters of a generalized Deleuzeanism taken care their usage of his specialized work does him justice?Few exponents of postcolonial and subaltern theories now dispute the influence that Deleuze’s work exerted on the intellectuals and theorists who developed those theories. However, this book contends that postcolonial and subaltern theorists have engaged with Deleuzean thought in ways that have perhaps produced a long series of misunderstandings – for which Deleuze himself is not responsible. By engaging with recent innovations in North African culture and by examining the dissemination of Deleuze’s identities across a broad range of postcolonial theory, Réda Bensmaïa shows that the ‘encounter’ between Deleuze and the postcolonial movement can only be understood through the idea of a ‘transcendental’ field, in which Deleuze and his postcolonial followers find themselves captured.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-02-23
Mått:156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350004382

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Réda Bensmaïa is Professor Emeritus, Formerly University Professor of French and Francophone Literature, in the Department of French Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University, USA. He has published extensively on French and Francophone literature of the 20th century as well as on film theory and contemporary philosophy.

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How to think the “postcolonial" with Deleuze? With reference to key concepts such as haecceities, audiovisuality, the event, minor literature, and becoming-animal, Réda Bensmaïa offers a series of thought-provoking answers to this dynamic question. At once rigorous and open-minded, and attuned to debates in philosophy, film theory, literature, art, and geopolitics, this book is a tribute to Deleuzean discourse at its best.

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Series ForewordAcknowledgementsPreface: Gilles Deleuze and How to Become a Stalker in Philosophy1. Postcolonial Haecceities: On Deleuze’s Names2. The Subject of Art: Prolegomena to a Future Deleuzian Aesthetics3. Cinéplastique(s): Deleuze on Élie Faure and Film Theory4. On the “Spiritual Automaton,” or Space and Time in Modern Cinema According to Gilles Deleuze5. The Singularity of the Event: Gilles Deleuze, Paul Virilio, François Jullien6. The Kafka-Effect: Considerations on the Limits of Interpretation in Deleuze and Guattari’s Book on Kafka7. On the Concept of ‘Minor Literature’: From Kafka to Kateb Yacine8. Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Political in Rachid Boudjedra’s L’Escargot EntêtéNotesBibliographyIndex