Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze

Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze

by Gregg Lambert (Author)

Synopsis

This text takes up Deleuze's most powerful argument on the task of contemporary philosophy in the West. Deleuze argues that it is only through a creative engagement with the forms of non-philosophy - notably modern art, literature and cinema - that philosophy can hope to restore the broken links of perception, language and emotion. In a sequence of essays, Gregg Lambert analyses Deleuze's investigations into the modern arts. Particular attention is paid to Deleuze's exploration of Liebniz in relation to modern painting and to Borges with regard to an understanding of the relationship between philosophy, literature and language. By illustrating Deleuze's own approach to the arts, and to modern literature in particular, the book demonstrates the critical significance of Deleuze's call for a future philosophy defined as an art of inventing concepts .

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 198
Publisher: Mansell Publishing
Published: 20 Jun 2002

ISBN 10: 0826459560
ISBN 13: 9780826459565

Media Reviews
A smart, fast, witty book which surveys Deleuze's philosophy with an intellectual agility, a sparkling intelligence, and an effortless command of film, post-Cartesian philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature in several languages. Students of film, visual culture, theory and anyone who wants to know a little more about continental philosophy will find this book invaluable. This is a book that breathes, that braces, that empowers, that makes you 'see' sudden and startling new associations and then want to play along with Deleuze's concepts so as to apply them to new films, books, or theoretical issues. --Jean Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania
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Author Bio
Gregg Lambert is Dean's Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University, New York, USA.