Deleuze beyond Badiou : ontology, multiplicity, and event / Clayton Crockett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crockett, Clayton, 1969-

Series:

Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture.

Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Badiou, Alain. Deleuze.

Badiou, Alain.

Physical Description:

217 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]

Summary:

In this Work, Clayton Crockett rehabilitates Deleuze's position within contemporary political and philosophical thought, advancing an original reading of the thinker's major works and a constructive conception of his philosophical ontology. Through close readings of Deleuze's Difference and Repetition, Capitalism and Schizophrenia (with Felix Guattari), and Cinema 2, Crockett argues that Deleuze is anything but the austere, quietistic, and aristocratic intellectual Alain Badiou portrayed in his 1997 critique, Deleuze: The Clamor of Being. Instead, Crockett underscores Deleuze's radical aesthetics and innovative scientific, political, and mathematical forms of thought. He also refutes the notion that Deleuze retreated from politics toward the end of his life. Using Badiou's critique as a foil, Crockett maintains the profound continuity of Deleuze's work and builds a general interpretation of his more obscure formulations. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

The clamor of being: Badiou vs. Deleuze

A repetition of difference

Deleuze's logic of double articulation

Producing the event as machine, as fold, and as image

Being a sublime event

Being a subject in a transcendental world

Energetics of being

Politics of the event

Vodou economics: Haiti and the future of democracy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231162685

0231162685

9780231162692

0231162693

9780231530910

0231530919

OCLC:

794366363