Deleuzian Concepts - Philosophy, Colonization, Politics

Zusatztext "Patton's book is an important and innovative contribution to Deleuze studies and to contemporary debates in philosophy and the humanities. His arguments are convincing and stimulating: they open the way for a new and sober reading of Deleuze and bring him into dialogue with the tradition of political liberalism and pragmatism. His use of the concept of the event to understand the history of colonization gives the reader a compelling example of what the political function of philosophy is, or could be." Informationen zum Autor Paul Patton is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales. He is the author of Deleuze and the Political (2000). Klappentext These essays provide important interpretations and analyze critical developments in the political philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Zusammenfassung These essays provide important interpretations and analyze critical developments in the political philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Patton
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.2010
• EAN: 9780804768771
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-6877-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day