Secrets of Becoming : Negotiating Whitehead, Deleuze, and Butler / ed. by Roland Faber, Andrea M. Stephenson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bell, Jeffrey, Contributor.

Faber, Roland, Contributor.

Faber, Roland, Editor.

Gudmarsdottir, Sigridur, Contributor.

Halewood, Michael, Contributor.

Higgins, Luke B., Contributor.

Keller, Catherine, Contributor.

Palin, Isabella, Contributor.

Robinson, Keith, Contributor.

Shaviro, Steven, Contributor.

Stephenson, Andrea M., Contributor.

Stephenson, Andrea M., Editor.

Van Wyk, Alan R., Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Secrets of Becoming brings into conversation modes of thought traditionally held apart: Whitehead’s philosophy of the event, Deleuze’s philosophy of multiplicity, and Judith Butler’s 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 “becoming” that secretly defines the philosophies of Whitehead, Deleuze, and Butler. Its three sections investigate their surprising confluence in a “philosophy of becoming” in relation to the question of the event, bodies and societies, and immanence and divinity. A substantial Introduction gives an extended comparison of the three thinkers.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Abbreviations

Foreword

Introduction: Negotiating Becoming

Part One. Negotiating events and multiplicities

1. Whitehead, Post-Structuralism, and Realism

2. Nomad Thought: Deleuze, Whitehead, and the Adventure of Thinking

3. Transcendental Empiricism in Deleuze and Whitehead

4. Can We Be Wolves? Intersections between Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition and Butler’s Performativity

Part Two. Negotiating bodies and societies

5. Butler and Whitehead on the (Social) Body

6. Conflict

7. Becoming through Multiplicity: Staying in the Middle of Whitehead’s and Deleuze-Guattari’s Philosophies of Life

Part Three. Negotiating immanence and divinity

8. Surrationality and Chaosmos: For a More Deleuzian Whitehead (with a Butlerian Intervention)

9. Divine Possibilities: Becoming an Order without Law

10. ‘‘God Is a Lobster’’: Whitehead’s Receptacle Meets the Deleuzian Sieve

11. Uninteresting Truth? Tedium and Event in Postmodernity

Notes

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-8232-9256-8

OCLC:

1350685561