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Gilles Deleuze / Claire Colebrook.

By: Series: Routledge critical thinkersPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.Description: x, 170 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780415246330
  • 0415246334
  • 0415246342
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Contents:
Why Deleuze?; Key Ideas; 1 Powers of Thinking: Philosophy, Art and Science; 2 Cinema: Perception,Time and Becoming; 3 Machines, the Untimely and Deterritorialisation; 4 Transcendental Empiricism; 5 Desire, Ideology and Simulacra; 6 Minor Literature: the Power of Eternal Return; 7 Becoming; After Deleuze.
Summary: Why think? Not, according to Gilles Deleuze, in order to be clever, but because thinking transforms life. Why read literature? Not for pure entertainment, Deleuze tells us, but because literature can recreate the boundaries of life. With his emphasis on creation, the future and the enhancement of life, along with his crusade against 'common sense', Deleuze offers some of the most liberating, exhilarating ideas in twentieth-century thought. This book offers a way in to Deleuzean thought through such topics as: 'becoming', time and the flow of life. the ethics of thinking. 'major' and 'minor' literature, difference and repetition, desire, the image and ideology.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Red 194 DEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 12322

Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-163) and index.

Why Deleuze?; Key Ideas; 1 Powers of Thinking: Philosophy, Art and Science; 2 Cinema: Perception,Time and Becoming; 3 Machines, the Untimely and Deterritorialisation; 4 Transcendental Empiricism; 5 Desire, Ideology and Simulacra; 6 Minor Literature: the Power of Eternal Return; 7 Becoming; After Deleuze.

Why think? Not, according to Gilles Deleuze, in order to be clever, but because thinking transforms life. Why read literature? Not for pure entertainment, Deleuze tells us, but because literature can recreate the boundaries of life. With his emphasis on creation, the future and the enhancement of life, along with his crusade against 'common sense', Deleuze offers some of the most liberating, exhilarating ideas in twentieth-century thought. This book offers a way in to Deleuzean thought through such topics as: 'becoming', time and the flow of life. the ethics of thinking. 'major' and 'minor' literature, difference and repetition, desire, the image and ideology.