Communism After Deleuze

AvAlex Taek-Gwang Lee,Ian Buchanan

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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This new reading of Gilles Deleuze forges a link between his early and later works by decoding his hidden agenda for communism.Encoded in the idea of ‘the Third World’, Deleuze used his concept of communism as a bulwark against fascist politics and the liberal political economy. Inspired by May 68 and its aftermath, these concealed interpretations of Marx are now tacitly forgotten but can unlock a deeper understanding of Deleuze’s political project.Often regarded as an apolitical philosopher, the challenges that Deleuze mounted to structuralism are easy to overlook. By reinvigorating the communist aspect of his political project and linking his ideas to Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière and Slavoj Žižek, Alex Taek-Gwang Lee reveals Deleuze’s objective: to rescue Marxism from the dogmatic status quo and revive its political agendas. This major undertaking situates his ideas alongside and sets out a new framework for reading the significance of Marxist thought in postwar France. Ultimately, this new understanding of Deleuze’s critique of global capitalism opens up his vision of materialistic politics as a means of shaping the people and the proletariat of the future.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-08-20
Mått:138 x 216 x 25 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Deleuze and Guattari Encounters
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350474079

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Alex Taek-Gwang Lee is a professor of cultural studies at the School of Global Communication and a founding director of the Center for Technology in Humanities at Kyung Hee University, Korea.

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Alex Taek-Gwang Lee casts the much-debated issue of Deleuze’s proposed book on Marx in a completely new light. His rich and wide-ranging discussion develops the audacious hypothesis that Deleuze’s Marx book already exists in virtual form, implicit in the series of his philosophical encounters with post-war French Marxism. Lee identifies the many points at which Deleuze departs from the Marxism of his time, in both its official and its oppositional (Althusserian) varieties, while remaining within its conceptual and aspirational field. He argues that, insofar as it is aligned with ‘becoming-revolutionary’ and committed to bringing about new earths and new peoples, Deleuze’s conception of philosophy bears witness to another, minoritarian Idea of communism. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the political dimension of Deleuze’s philosophy.

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1. Introduction: Deleuze and Minor Communism2. Deleuze and Structuralism3. From Anti-Oedipus to A Thousand Plateaus4. Faciality, Ritournelle, and the Urstaat5. Deleuze’s unwritten Marx6. Conclusion: How Do We Recognise Deleuze’s Communism?