Deleuze and the Non/human

This groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection interrogates the significance of Deleuze's work in the recent and dramatic nonhuman turn. It confronts questions about environmental futures, animals and plants, nonhuman structures and systems, and the place of objects in a more-than-human world.

List of contents

Introduction: Deleuze and the Non/Human; Jon Roffe and Hannah Stark 1. Deleuze and the Nonhuman Turn: An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz; Jon Roffe and Hannah Stark 2. Nonhuman Life; Ashley Woodward 3. Objectal Human: On the Place of Psychic Systems in Difference and Repetition; Jon Roffe 4. Human and Nonhuman Agency in Deleuze; Sean Bowden 5. Beyond the Human Condition: Bergson and Deleuze; Keith Ansell-Pearson 6. Insects and Other Minute Perceptions in the Baroque House; Undine Sellbach and Stephen Loo 7. Iqbal's Becoming-Woman in The Rape of Sita; Simone Bignall 8. Becoming-Animal is a Trap for Humans: Deleuze and Guattari in Madagascar; Timothy Laurie 9. The Companion Cyborg: Technics and Domestication; Ronald Bogue 10. Deleuze and Critical Plant Studies; Hannah Stark 11. Mechanosphere: Man, Earth, Capital; Arun Saldanha 12. Who Comes After the Posthuman?; Claire Colebrook

About the author

Keith Ansell-Pearson, University of Warwick, UK
Simone Bignall, University of New South Wales, Australia
Ronald Bogue, University of Georgia, USA
Sean Bowden, Deakin University, Australia
Claire Colebrook, Penn State University, USA
Elizabeth Grosz, Duke University, US
Timothy Laurie, University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr Stephen Loo, University of Tasmania, Australia
Jon Roffe, University of Melbourne, Australia
Arun Saldanha, University of Minnesota, USA
Dr Undine Sellbach, University of Tasmania, Australia
Hannah Stark, University of Tasmania, Australia
Ashley Woodward, University of Dundee, UK

Summary

This groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection interrogates the significance of Deleuze's work in the recent and dramatic nonhuman turn. It confronts questions about environmental futures, animals and plants, nonhuman structures and systems, and the place of objects in a more-than-human world.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Roffe
• Assisted by: ROFFE (Editor), Roffe (Editor), J. Roffe (Editor), Stark (Editor), H Stark (Editor), H. Stark (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349497751
• ISBN: 978-1-349-49775-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); B, Cultural Studies, Environment, Philosophy, The environment, Social & political philosophy, History of Philosophy, environmental science, engineering & technology, Social Philosophy, Plant Ecology, Botany & plant sciences, Environmental Sciences, Environment, general, Social sciences—Philosophy, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Environmental Science and Engineering