Thinking with Deleuze

Ronald Bogue is Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Literature and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia.

Ron Bogue has long been one of the most respected and rigorous readers of Deleuze. Few critics can claim comparativist knowledge and sensibility commensurate to Deleuze’s philosophy; fewer still have the pedagogical gift for conveying this material. But even by this measure, Bogue’s new book, Thinking with Deleuze, is a prodigious achievement. Drawing on the vast archive of Deleuze’s work, with and without Guattari, and engaging its population of philosophers, writers, painters, filmmakers, musicians etc., Bogue ultimately extends Deleuze’s thought into new questions, problems, and circumstances—thinking otherwise. Among the many highlights, readers will discover formidable reflections on Deleuze in relation to music, science-fiction, non-Western philosophy, Raymond Ruyer and animal studies. Thinking with Deleuze is a magnum opus.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsPrefaceI. Thinking Otherwise1. The Master ApprenticeII. The Possible and the People to Come2. To Choose to Choose – To Believe in This World3. Speranza, Island of the Possible4. The Art of the Possible 5. Deleuze and Guattari and the Future of Politics: Science Fiction, Protocols and the People to Come6. Protocols of Experience and the Experimental NovelIII. Music and Philosophy7. The New Harmony8. Deleuze, Mann and Modernism: Musical Becoming in Doctor Faustus9. Scoring the Rhizome: Bussotti’s Musical DiagramIV. Literature and Philosophy10. Deleuze, Guattari, and the Kafka-Kleist Connection: Toward a Literature of War11. On the Superiority of Chinese-American Literature12. Theatrum Philosophicum AsiaticumV. Sight, Sound and Language13. The Landscape of Sensation 14. Deleuze and Roxy: The Time of the Intolerable in Godard’s Adieu au langage 15. Visions and Auditions: The Image in the Late Thought of Gilles DeleuzeVI. Nature16. A Thousand Ecologies17. Nature, Law and Chaosmopolitanism 18. The Companion Cyborg: Technics and Domestication 19. Vitalism and the Force That Is but Does Not Act: Ruyer, Leibniz and Deleuze20. Plateau Three: Who the Earth Thinks It Is Bibliography Index