Brent Adkins

Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus (eBook, PDF)

A Critical Introduction and Guide

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A guide to Deleuze and Guattari''s masterwork, A Thousand Plateaus

• Read the introduction, ''A Perceptual Semiotics'', online for free (pdf)

The sheer volume and complexity of Deleuze and Guattari''s A Thousand Plateaus can be daunting. What is an assemblage? What is a rhizome? What is a war machine? What is a body without organs? What is becoming-animal? Brent Adkins demonstrates that all the questions raised by A Thousand Plateaus are in service to Deleuze and Guattari''s radical reconstruction of the methods and aims of philosophy itself.

To achieve this he argues that the crucial term for understanding A Thousand Plateaus is ''assemblage.'' An assemblage is Deleuze and Guattari''s answer to the perennial philosophical question, ''What is a thing?'' and they assert that assemblages are always found on a continuum between stasis and change. Using clear language and numerous examples, each chapter analyses an individual plateau and examines the tendencies toward both stasis and change for each assemblage found there - be it social, political, psychological, musical, biological or linguistic.

Key Features

• Explains all the major terms found in A Thousand Plateaus in clear language
• Each chapter corresponds to a ''plateau'' for ease of reference
• Provides a singular interpretation of the work in terms of assemblages and connecting that interpretation with traditional and contemporary debates within philosophy

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748686476
• Artikelnr.: 44755808

Autorenporträt

Brent Adkins is Professor of Philosophy at Roanoke College.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Perceptual Semiotics
1. Rhizome
2. 1914: One or Several Wolves?
3. 10,000 B.C.: The Geology of Morals
4. November 20, 1923: Postulates of Linguistics
5. 587 B.C. - A.D. 70: On Several Regimes of Signs
6. November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs?
7. Year Zero: Faciality
8. 1874: Three Novellas, or 'What Happened?'
9. 1933: Micropolitics and Segmentarity
10. 1730: Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Imperceptible...
11. 1837: Of the Refrain
12. 1227: Treatise on Nomadology - The War Machine
13. 7000 B.C.: Apparatus of Capture
14. 1440: The Smooth and the Striated
Conclusion: The Ethics of Becoming
Suggestions for Further Reading
Bibliography.