Deleuze and the Contemporary World

Informationen zum Autor Ian Buchanan is Director of the Institute for Social Transformation Research, University of Wollongong. He is the author of A Reader's Guide to Anti-Oedipus and Deleuzism: A Metacommentary, and Editor of the journal Deleuze Studies. Adrian Parr is Professor of Critical Theory at the University of Cincinnati. She is the editor of The Deleuze Dictionary (EUP, 2005), and with Ian Buchanan of Deleuze and the Contemporary World (EUP, 2006). She is the author of Exploring the Work of Leonardo da Vinci within the Context of Contemporary Philosophical Thought and Art (Edwin Mellen Press, 2003). Klappentext With twelve new essays, this volume applies the pragmatic philosophy of Deleuze to current affairs involving military activity in the Middle East, refugees, terrorism, information and communication, and the state. Topics include political theory and philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, international studies, and Middle Eastern studies. Zusammenfassung The twelve new essays in this volume join the pragmatic philosophy of Deleuze to current affairs! using a contemporary context to think through and with Deleuze.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Parr Buchanan
• Assisted by: Ian Buchanan (Editor), Adrian Parr (Editor)
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.07.2006
• EAN: 9780748623419
• ISBN: 978-0-7486-2341-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Deleuze Connections; Deleuze Connections (Hardcover; Deleuze Connections; Deleuze Connections (Hardcover
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day