The invention of a people : Heidegger and Deleuze on art and the political / Janae Sholtz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sholtz, Janae, author.

Series:

New directions in Deleuze studies.

Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976--Influence.

Heidegger, Martin.

Philosophy, French--20th century.

Philosophy, French.

Art and philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 289 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Invention of a People explores the residual relation between Heidegger's thought and Deleuze's novelty, focusing on the parallels between their emphasis on the connection of earth, art and a people-to-come. Contextualising the problematic of a people-to-come within a larger political and philosophical context of post-war thinkers of community such as Bataille, Blanchot and Nancy, Sholtz offers a creative approach to the work of these two thinkers. Deleuze's project is therefore cast as both an extension and radicalisation of the Heideggerian themes of immanence, ontological difference and the transformative potential of art. Presenting interstitial readings of Paul Klee, Kostos Axelos, Arthur Rimbaud, the 1960's art collective Fluxus and artist Brian Fridge, she invents creative encounters which act as provocations from the outside, opening new lines of flight and previously unthought terrain. Ultimately she develops a diagrammatic image of a people-to-come that is constantly in flux and can answer the demands of the untimely future."

Contents:

Introduction: The people are missing

pt. 1: Divergence, the point of Nietzsche

Heidegger's Nietzsche

Deleuze's Nietzsche

pt. 2: (Un)thinking, what must be thought (Introduction to part II)

Heidegger on art and ontology

Klee plateau: the (deferred) possibility of (art's) other beginning

Deleuze on art and ontology

Axelos plateau from earth to the cosmic

pt. 3: (Un)earthing a people-to-come (Introduction to part III)

Heidegger and the political

Rimbaud plateau: car il arrive a l'inconnu?

Deleuze and the political

Fridge plateau: being true to the earth, or cosmic artisantry

Concluding event : Fluxus plateau: ontology to fluxology.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Aug 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-1244-0