Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (864 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231145616 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 672 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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A FANTASTIC Introduction to Two Fantastic Thinkers Dylan O'Brien Quite likely, this is the best starting place for developing an understanding of Deleuze or Guattari. Before coming across this book, I had read many introductions to D&G (mainly D), and had found them either completely incomprehensible, espousing what I could only describe as "schizophrenic surface chatter", or they wer. "An Amazing philosophical biography!" according to Amazon Customer. This is a wonderful AND amazing detailed philosophical biography of BOTH Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. A tour de force! The breadth of personal research and scholarship that went into this book should make it the industry standard for this literary genre for years to come.More than a simple narrative about the uniqu. I like this book Jim Pyke I'm about half way through this right now. I have been a D&G fan for many years, and I like this book quite a lot.I will quickly add the qualifier here that I am NOT an academic and do not hold any degrees in philosophy or psychology, but the books I like to read fall mostly into academic areas of philosophy, psychology,
. However, despite the wealth of research, the author too often resorts to paraphrases of their writings, and the book would have been well served by judicious editing. Dosse, a French professor of history, traces these lines of influence, placing the pair's work firmly in the context of the May 1968 student uprising, and both authors' strained relationships with a megalomaniacal Lacan. (June)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly An exhaustive and fascinating account of a remarkable collaboration between Guattari, a radical, militant psychiatrist, and Deleuze, one of the towering figures of contemporary French philosophy, whose work together produced Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus, star
Drawing on unpublished archives and hundreds of personal interviews, Dosse elucidates a collaboration that lasted more than two decades, underscoring the role that family and history—particularly the turbulent time of May 1968—play in their monumental work. In May 1968, Gilles Deleuze was an established philosopher teaching at the innovative Vincennes University, just outside of Paris. From that moment on, Deleuze and Guattari engaged in a surprising, productive partnership, collaborating on several groundbreaking works, including Anti-Oedipus, What Is Philosoph