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Zusatztext If you want to learn from some of the deepest and most original work on Deleuze! Guattari and literature available today! this is the book for you. If you are currently doing advanced research on Deleuze! Guattari and literature! this collection will be a valuable resource for studies and positions in relation to which your thesis should be critically situated? This collection is a long and rewarding set of essays on the different ways in which modernist works and the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari can add to the resources for thinking through a condition that has now become post-human. It is not possible to do justice to each essay or to the excellent and very helpful glossary entries at the end of the book. Informationen zum Autor Paul Ardoin is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA. S. E. Gontarski is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University, USA. He is the author or editor of 29 books and, with Paul Ardoin and Laci Mattison, he is series editor of the Bloomsbury series, Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism . The serie editors were also volume editors for the initial books in that series: Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2013) and the follow-up, Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2014). Gontarski’s recent books are: Beckett’s “Happy Day”: A Manuscript Study (2017) and Revisioning Beckett: Samuel Beckett’s Decadent Turn (Bloomsbury, 2018). Laci Mattison is Assistant Professor of 20th Century British Literature at Florida Gulf Coast University, USA. Zusammenfassung Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism explores the multi-faceted and formative impact of Gilles Deleuze on the development and our understanding of modernist thought in its philosophical, literary, and more broadly cultural manifestations. Gilles Deleuze himself rethought philosophical history with a series of books and essays on individual philosophers such as Kant, Spinoza, Leibniz, Nietzsche, and Bergson and authors such as Proust, Kafka, Beckett and Woolf, on the one hand, and Bacon, Messiaen, and Pollock, among others, in other arts. This volume acknowledges Deleuze's profound impact on a century of art and thought and the origin of that impact in his own understanding of modernism. Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism begins by "conceptualizing" Deleuze by offering close readings of some of his most important works. The contributors offer new readings that illuminate the context of Deleuze's work, either by reading one of Deleuze's texts against or in the context of his entire body of work or by challenging Deleuze's readings of other philosophers. A central section on Deleuze and his aesthetics maps the relationships between Deleuze's thought and modernist literature. The volume's final section features an extended glossary of Deleuze's key terms, with each definition having its own expert contributor. Inhaltsverzeichnis AbbreviationsContributorsSeries Preface, Understanding Philosophy, Understanding ModernismS. E. Gontarski, Paul Ardoin, and Laci MattisonIntroduction, Gilles Deleuze and the Staging of Philosophy S. E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA; Paul Ardoin, Florida State University, USA, and University of Antwerp, Belgium; and Laci Mattison, Florida State University, USA Part 1 Conceptualizing Deleuze1 Deleuze’s Proust and Signs: The Literary Partial Object Patrick M. Bray, Ohio State University, USA 2 Life as Method: The Invention of Problems in Deleuze’s Bergsonism Wahida Khandker, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK 3 Diagrammatic Modernism: Abstraction, Immanence, and the Positions of Style Joe Hughes, University of Melbourne, Australia 4 Reading Anti-Oedipus: Literature, Schizophrenia, and Universal Hi...
