Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy of HistoryDeleuze and Guattari's Philosophy of History constructs, problematizes and defends a Deleuzian philosophy of history. Drawing on Deleuze's philosophy of time, it identifies key ideas and suggestions related to the philosophy of history from Deleuze and Guattari's major writings - including the seminal contemporary texts Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaux, Difference and Repetiton and The Logic of Sense. The book covers the following themes: the role of dates in historical chronology; historical causality; historical origins; the character of historical events; and the diagnosis of such actual historical events as the rise of capitalism in Europe. This text is a groundbreaking, valuable and original contribution to the scholarship on Deleuze and Guattari, and contemporary Continental philosophy as a whole. |
Contents
| 1 | |
| 12 | |
3 The virtual coexistence of the past the second synthesis of time | 31 |
4 Navigating the dark precursors of the future the third synthesis of time | 54 |
the problem of historical chronology | 71 |
6 Quasicauses and becomingcausal | 97 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abstract machine actual affirmation Alice Arc effect argument assemblage becomes larger beginning body body without organs capitalism capitalist causal chapter China co-existence concept concrete contemporaneous contingent contraction counter-effectuation dark precursor decoding defined Deleuze and Guattari Deleuze says Deleuze's Deleuzian Derrida desire despotic destiny deterritorialization diagram differential dimension Ed Sanders enunciation eternal return exist explain expression flux former present happens Hegel historical events historiography immanent instants interpretation Joan of Arc logic means memory minoritarian modern names of history objects occurs once one’s ontological paradox particular passage passive synthesis past and future philosophy of history plane of immanence Plateau present passes problem produces pure past quasi-cause question refer relation repetition revolutionary second synthesis sense simply simultaneity singular social society stage structure succession takes temporal territorial regime theory third synthesis three syntheses time-line universal history variations virtual whole