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The Politics of Orientation : Deleuze Meets Luhmann / Hannah Richter.

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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.
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ISBN:
1-4384-9507-2
OCLC:
1401928016

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