| Description |
1 online resource (185 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Critical Thinkers |
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Routledge critical thinkers.
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| Contents |
Gilles Deleuze; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's preface; Acknowledgements; 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; Further Reading; Works Cited; Index |
| 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* 'majo |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.
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Philosophers.
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Philosophy.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0203029925 |
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9780203029923 |
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