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The Politics of Orientation : Deleuze Meets Luhmann / Hannah Richter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richter, Hannah, 1975- author.
- Series:
- SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy.
- SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy.
- Senses and sensation.
- System theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 222 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- Interlinks Gilles Deleuze's critical philosophy with Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to unpack contemporary democratic politics as a contest for complexity-reducing orientation in sense.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The Critical Luhmann
- Deleuze's Sobriety, Luhmann's Humor
- Structure of the Book
- Chapter 1 The Immanent Creativity of Sense
- "One can't help ... but two can": Sense and Paradox in Deleuze and Luhmann
- Deleuze's Sense: Stoic Bodies and Chaotic Nonsense
- Luhmann's Sense: Medium and Form, Mind and Politics
- Chapter 2 Nomadic Monads at the Autopoietic Fold
- Being for the World that Is Inside
- The Fold of Individuation
- Self, World, Autopoiesis
- Perspectivism is a Pluralism
- Chapter 3 The Circle of Time Must Be Decentered
- The Necessary Irreversibility of Luhmann's Time
- Autopoietic Orientation as a Politics of Time
- Deleuzian Time as Circle and Labyrinth
- Chapter 4 Bifurcating the Political Event
- Whitehead in the Chaosmos of the Deleuzian Event
- Whitehead's Twofold Sense-Event
- Counter-Effectuation as a Leap of Imagination
- Expectation and Evental Continuity in Luhmann
- Exceptional Sense-Event and Sovereign Decision
- Chapter 5 The Politics of Orientation
- The Impossibility of Modern Politics
- Marxist Interlude
- Post-Mortem Despotism after Control
- Recoding Luhmann's Political Theory
- Chapter 6 Post-truth Populism as a Politics of Orientation
- The Dredge and the Iron Cage
- The Dilemma of the Dividual: Neoliberalism and Post-Institutional Control
- Post-Truth Populist Orientation
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4384-9507-2
- OCLC:
- 1401928016
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