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Secrets of becoming : negotiating Whitehead, Deleuze, and Butler / edited by Roland Faber and Andrea M. Stephenson.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- International Whitehead Conference, Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- International Whitehead Symposium (6th : 2006 : Universität Salzburg)
- International Whitehead Conference
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947--Congresses.
- Whitehead, Alfred North.
- Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995--Congresses.
- Deleuze, Gilles.
- Butler, Judith, 1956---Congresses.
- Butler, Judith.
- Becoming (Philosophy)--Congresses.
- Becoming (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (299 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Secrets of Becoming brings into conversation modes of thought traditionally held apart: WhiteheadGs philosophy of the event, DeleuzeGs philosophy of multiplicity, and Judith ButlerGs philosophy of gender difference. Why should one try to connect these strains of thinking? What might make the work of these thinkers negotiable with one another? This volume finds that bridge in an emphasis on GbecomingG that secretly defines the philosophies of Whitehead, Deleuze, and Butler. Its three sections investigate their surprising confluence in a Gphilosophy of becomingG in relation to the question of th
- Contents:
- Contents; Abbreviations; Foreword; Negotiating Becoming; Negotiating Events and Multiplicities; Whitehead, Post-Structuralism, and Realism; Nomad Thought: Deleuze, Whitehead, and the Adventure of Thinking; Transcendental Empiricism in Deleuze and Whitehead; Can We Be Wolves? Intersections between Deleuze's Difference and Repetition and Butler's Performativity; Negotiating Bodies and Societies; Butler and Whitehead on the (Social) Body; Conflict; Becoming through Multiplicity: Staying in the Middle of Whitehead's and Deleuze-Guattari's Philosophies of Life; Negotiating Immanence and Divinity
- Surrationality and Chaosmos: For a More Deleuzian Whitehead (with a Butlerian Intervention)Divine Possibilities: Becoming an Order without Law; ''God Is a Lobster'': Whitehead's Receptacle Meets the Deleuzian Sieve; Uninteresting Truth? Tedium and Event in Postmodernity; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors
- Notes:
- The essays from the conference have been substantially rev. and new material has been added.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-3212-3
- 0-8232-7505-1
- 0-8232-3210-7
- OCLC:
- 923763537
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