Deleuze, Marx and Politics

A critical and provocative exploration of the political, conceptual and cultural points in Deleuze's minor politics and Marx's critique of capitalist dynamics, engaging with Deleuze's missing work The Grandeur of Marx.

List of contents

1. Introduction: The Grandeur of Marx
2. Minor Politics: The Styles of Cramped Creation
3. The Lumpenproletariat and the Proletarian Unnamable
4. The Social Factory: Machines-Work-Control
5. The Refusal of Work
6. Conclusion: The Strange Joy of Politics

About the author

Nicholas Thoburn teaches in the Department of Sociology at the University of Manchester.

Summary

A critical and provocative exploration of the political, conceptual and cultural points in Deleuze's minor politics and Marx's critique of capitalist dynamics, engaging with Deleuze's missing work The Grandeur of Marx.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Thoburn, Thoburn Nicholas
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.04.2014
• EAN: 9780415753845
• ISBN: 978-0-415-75384-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought; Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Political Ideologies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Political ideologies and movements