Deleuze and Guattari's: A Thousand Plateaus: a Critical Introduction and Guide - Brossura

Brent Adkins

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0748686460 ISBN 13: 9780748686469

Casa editrice: Edinburgh University Press, 2015

Riassunto

The sheer volume and complexity of Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateauscan be daunting. What is an assemblage? What is a rhizome? What is a war machine? What is a body without organs? What is becoming-animal? Brent Adkins demonstrates that all the questions raised byA Thousand Plateaus are in service to Deleuze and Guattari's radical reconstruction of the methods and aims of philosophy itself.

To achieve this he argues that the crucial term for understanding A Thousand Plateaus is 'assemblage.' An assemblage is Deleuze and Guattari's answer to the perennial philosophical question, "What is a thing?" and they assert that assemblages are always found on a continuum between stasis and change. Each plateau is therefore concerned with a particular type of assemblage (e.g. social, political, linguistic) and its tendencies toward both stasis and change.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Brent Adkins is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Roanoke College.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0748686460
• ISBN 13: 9780748686469
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272