A philosophy of practising : with Deleuze's difference and repetition / Antonia Pont.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pont, Antonia, author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995. Différence et répétition.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Practice (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Antonia Pont shows us how to identify when practising is happening and explains, using the early philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, how it fosters transformation, and gives us access to deep memory and rest, while also cultivating stability and responsiveness in the present. Practising, in other words, gives us three kinds of time instead of one. Practising involves an interweaving of differences expressing themselves among intentional repetitions. By engaging in practising, we open times other than our habitual presents, we slip the binds of identity and we thin out our relation with behaviours that shut out the future. Whether you practise already, are curious about embarking, or are a reader of Deleuze, this book - for makers, thinkers, lovers and activists - is a rigorous account of why practising is hard to say, why it works and why it matters.

Contents:

Intro

A Philosophy of Practising with Deleuze's Difference and Repetition

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. A Framework for Practising: Deriving the Four Criteria

2. Habit's Time: Between Routine and Compulsion

3. A Different Difference and Repetition's Three Times

4. Relaxation: That Unnatural Effort

5. Repeating Repetition: Practising with the Future

Conclusion: A Theory of Practising

Afterword

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 10, 2022).

ISBN:

1-4744-9049-2

1-3995-0963-2

1-4744-9048-4

OCLC:

1280277006