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Demystifying Deleuze: An Introductory Assemblage of Crucial Concepts
The theoretical work of Gilles Deleuze has transformed cultural studies and has made a significant impact on disciplines as diverse as sociology, queer theory, feminist studies, film, music, and philosophy. Until recently his books were notorious for their density and eccentric flair. While there are a wide array of introductions that complement and clarify his work, this assemblage stands apart by shedding his concepts of jargon and stressing the crucial, radical core of his philosophical ideas. [i]Demystifying Deleuze[/i]is a timely and approachable primer for students, scholars and critically-minded readers.
204 pages, Paperback
First published December 21, 2012
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2320527: where to begin reviewing this book but first to recognise it is more hypertext than book, more rhizomatic than arboreal, similar to dictionary or encyclopedia but densely self-referent, dense in specific, specialised language, for concepts that intertwine and support an entire non-hierarchal scheme of thought. in other words, as this book is read I need to bring many thoughts together to understand assertions, definitions, applications, beside other such thoughts, with no prejudice toward systematic or even worse platonic frozen relations between concepts. there is no doubt serious intent of value for deleuze by the editors and contributors of this volume...
I fear that my incoherence, my apparent inability to sum up terms this or that way, my limited education, may give fuel to the argument that deleuze and postmodernism in general are mistaken, that more time on them is wasted. I do not believe this. I see this only as further cause for further reading and teaching. I read this alone and while it is perhaps what you would get from class at u, there is trade-off: here this is peer-reviewed, integrates many voices, many attitudes, on the other profs might be more able to be flexible in clarifying points, by this or that immediate argument. I only wish I had read this to get clarity of concepts I only tentatively imagined (which were actually close) and got from other texts on deleuze such as Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction, Deleuze on Cinema,Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts, The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze, Multiplicity and Becoming: The Pluralist Empiricism of Gilles Deleuze, which were followed by few others and four by the man himself, I started with What Is Philosophy?, because at least it was short, then Bergsonism, which began difficult then later I loved it and this led to Henri Bergson, whom I find so great, then Nietzsche and Philosophy, which encouraged me to take another read of him and finally Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty: The Logic and Pragmatics of Creation, Affective Life, and Perception, which kind of sums up where I am by now...
Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction
Deleuze
What Is Philosophy?
Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts
Bergsonism
Bergson-Deleuze Encounters: Transcendental Experience and the Thought of the Virtual
Gilles Deleuze: Cinema and Philosophy
Deleuze on Cinema
2320527: where to begin reviewing this book but first to recognise it is more hypertext than book, more rhizomatic than arboreal, similar to dictionary or encyclopedia but densely self-referent, dense in specific, specialised language, for concepts that intertwine and support an entire non-hierarchal scheme of thought. in other words, as this book is read I need to bring many thoughts together to understand assertions, definitions, applications, beside other such thoughts, with no prejudice toward systematic or even worse platonic frozen relations between concepts. there is no doubt serious intent of value for deleuze by the editors and contributors of this volume...
I fear that my incoherence, my apparent inability to sum up terms this or that way, my limited education, may give fuel to the argument that deleuze and postmodernism in general are mistaken, that more time on them is wasted. I do not believe this. I see this only as further cause for further reading and teaching. I read this alone and while it is perhaps what you would get from class at u, there is trade-off: here this is peer-reviewed, integrates many voices, many attitudes, on the other profs might be more able to be flexible in clarifying points, by this or that immediate argument. I only wish I had read this to get clarity of concepts I only tentatively imagined (which were actually close) and got from other texts on deleuze such as Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction, Deleuze on Cinema,Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts, The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze, Multiplicity and Becoming: The Pluralist Empiricism of Gilles Deleuze, which were followed by few others and four by the man himself, I started with What Is Philosophy?, because at least it was short, then Bergsonism, which began difficult then later I loved it and this led to Henri Bergson, whom I find so great, then Nietzsche and Philosophy, which encouraged me to take another read of him and finally Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty: The Logic and Pragmatics of Creation, Affective Life, and Perception, which kind of sums up where I am by now...
Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction
Deleuze
What Is Philosophy?
Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts
Bergsonism
Bergson-Deleuze Encounters: Transcendental Experience and the Thought of the Virtual
Gilles Deleuze: Cinema and Philosophy
Deleuze on Cinema
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