Between Deleuze and Foucault

Nicolae Morar is Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Environmental Studies and an Associate Member with the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Oregon. Thomas Nail is Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. He is the award-winning author of eight prestigious University Press books which cover a wide range of topics including migration, borders, technology, digital media, history, science, economics, contemporary politics and climate change. His current research focuses on the influence of mobility on society and the arts in the 21st century. His work has been translated into ten major languages and cited across more than 20 academic disciplines.His published books are Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism (Oxford University Press, 2020), Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Theory of the Image (Oxford University Press, 2019), Being and Motion (Oxford University Press, 2018), Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), Theory of the Border (Oxford University Press, 2016), The Figure of the Migrant (Stanford University Press, 2015) and Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari, and Zapatismo (Edinburgh University Press, 2012).He also writes for Aeon: Ideas and Culture, The Huffington Post, Quartz, Pacific Standard: The Science of Society, History News Network and Monthly Review. Daniel W. Smith is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University and one of the world's leading commentators on Deleuze. He has translated his work, edited collections and written numerous articles on Deleuze. He is the author of Essays on Deleuze (EUP, 2012) and co-editor of Between Deleuze and Foucault (EUP, 2016), The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze (2012), Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text (2009), Deleuze and Ethics (EUP, 2011) and Deleuze and Time (EUP, 2023).

Benefitting from the recent publication of lectures by both Deleuze and Foucault, this is the first essay collection devoted to exploring the complex relations between two of the most important thinkers of our time. A must-read for scholars seriously interested in either Deleuze or Foucault.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionNicolae Morar, Thomas Nail and Daniel W. SmithPart I Encounters1. Deleuze and Foucault: A Philosophical FriendshipFrançois Dosse2. Theatrum PhilosophicumMichel Foucault3. Michel Foucault's Main ConceptsGilles Deleuze4. When and How I’ve Read FoucaultAntonio Negri, translated by Kristopher KlotzPart II Method and Critique5. Philosophy as Cultural Critique in Foucault and DeleuzeColin Koopman6. Foucault’s Deleuzean Methodology of the Late 1970sJohn Protevi7. Deleuze’s Foucault: A Metaphysical FictionFrédéric Gros, translated by Samantha BankstonPart III Convergence and Divergence8. Speaking Out for Others: Philosophy’s Activity in Deleuze and Foucault (and Heidegger)Leonard Lawlor and Janae Scholtz9. Philosophy and History in Deleuze and FoucaultPaul Patton10. Becoming and History: Deleuze’s Reading of FoucaultAnne Sauvagnargues, translated by Alex Feldman11. Foucault and the Image of ThoughtKevin Thompson12. The Regularities of the Statement: Deleuze on Foucault’s Archaeology of KnowledgeMary Beth MaderPart IV Desire, Power and Resistance 13. Desire and PleasureGilles Deleuze14. Against the Incompatibility Thesis: A Rather Different Reading of the Desire-Pleasure Problem Nicolae Morar and Marjorie Gracieuse15. Biopower and Control SocietiesThomas Nail16. Two Concepts of Resistance: Foucault and DeleuzeDaniel W. SmithAppendix17. Meeting DeleuzePaul Rabinow18. Foucault and PrisonPaul RabinowNotes on ContributorsIndex