Towards a Geopolitical Image of Thought

Gregg Lambert is Dean's Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University and Distinguished International Scholar, Kyung Hee University, South Korea. He is author of many previous works on Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy, including The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (Continuum, 2002), Who’s Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari? (Continuum, 2005), In Search for a New Image of Thought: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Expression (University of Minnesota, 2012); Philosophy After Friendship: Deleuze’s Conceptual Personae (University of Minnesota, 2017) and ‘The People are Missing’: On Minor Literature Today (University of Nebraska Press, 2020).

In this outstanding series of essays, at times analytical, expository and explanatory, Lambert explores Deleuze and Guattari’s conception of geo-philosophy in the broader context of contemporary analytical and continental approaches. He provides an exemplary series of analyses of the nature of commentary, the fragmentary nature of contemporary thought, and key Deleuzian concepts such as the Other, desiring-machines and territory. This book is a must read for anyone interested in thinking with Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Lyotard and the philosophical canon.

• Preamble: Who are Deleuze and Guattari’s ‘Conceptual Personae’?Part I: What is ‘Continental Philosophy’?1. Toward a Political Geology2. The Question: ‘What is “Continental” Philosophy’?3. The Archipelago of Contemporary ReasonPart II: On the Pedagogy of Concepts4. ‘Another Person’ (autrui)5. ‘In-Human Sex’ (‘desiring-machines’)6. ‘Becoming-Animal’ and ‘Territory’Bibliography; Index