Deleuze, Guattari, and the Problem of Transdisciplinarity

by Guillaume Collett (Editor), Guillaume Collett (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2019

  $173.55

  Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy has today become ubiquitous in, and regularly drawn on by, an array of subjects in the theoretical humanities. Throughout their careers they also engaged with a myriad of disciplines; yet they declared themselves that Philosophy is not interdisciplinary . This problematic contradiction has rarely been explicitly confronted by scholars working on Deleuze and Guattari. Fortunately, however, they left us a number of clues in their works which signal a way out of this impasse. These clues amount to a complex and penetrating, if un-unified, theory of disciplinarity and cross-disciplinary communication. Energised by the flourishing of transdisciplinary studies across the theoretical humanities and continental philosophy, this volume systematically and comprehensively examines instances of transdisciplinarity within Deleuze's, Guattari's, and Deleuze and Guattari's bodies of work, in opposition to notions of interdisciplinarity. The first to engage with a transdisciplinary framework specifically through the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, this book sheds light on the heart of their intellectual project, which is revealed to be the construction of a philosophy that is itself fundamentally transdisciplinary in nature.