Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism explores the multi-faceted and formative impact of Gilles Deleuze on the development and our understanding of modernist thought in its philosophical, literary, and more broadly cultural manifestations. Gilles Deleuze himself rethought philosophical history with a series of books and essays on individual philosophers such as Kant, Spinoza, Leibniz, Nietzsche, and Bergson and authors such as Proust, Kafka, Beckett and Woolf, on the one hand, and Bacon, Messiaen, and Pollock, among others, in other arts. This volume acknowledges Deleuze's profound impact on a century of art and thought and the origin of that impact in his own understanding of modernism. Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism begins by "conceptualizing" Deleuze by offering close readings of some of his most important works. The contributors offer new readings that illuminate the context of Deleuze's work, either by reading one of Deleuze's texts against or in the context of his entire body of work or by challenging Deleuze's readings of other philosophers. A central section on Deleuze and his aesthetics maps the relationships between Deleuze's thought and modernist literature. The volume's final section features an extended glossary of Deleuze's key terms, with each definition having its own expert contributor.

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Abbreviations Contributors Series Preface, Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism S. E. Gontarski, Paul Ardoin, and Laci Mattison Introduction, Gilles Deleuze and the Staging of Philosophy S. E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA; Paul Ardoin, Florida State University, USA, and University of Antwerp, Belgium; and Laci Mattison, Florida State University, USA Part 1 Conceptualizing Deleuze 1 Deleuze’s Proust and Signs: The Literary Partial Object Patrick M. Bray, Ohio State University, USA 2 Life as Method: The Invention of Problems in Deleuze’s Bergsonism Wahida Khandker, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK 3 Diagrammatic Modernism: Abstraction, Immanence, and the Positions of Style Joe Hughes, University of Melbourne, Australia 4 Reading Anti-Oedipus: Literature, Schizophrenia, and Universal History Aidan Tynan, Cardiff University, UK 5 On the Flyleaves of Modernism: Deleuze and Guattari’s Kafka Jason Skeet, Cardiff University, UK 6 Intensive Multiplicities in A Thousand Plateaus Audrone Žukauskaite, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute and Vilnius University, Lithuania 7 The Movement-Image, The Time-Image, and the Paradoxes of Literary and Other Modernisms Garin Dowd, University of West London, UK 8 What Is Philosophy?, or Eternal Return S. E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA 9 Essays Critical and Clinical: The Book as a ‘Whole’ Anthony Uhlmann, University of Western Sydney, Australia Part 2 Deleuze and Aesthetics 10 “A strange respect for the individual”: Gilles Deleuze and Hardy the Novelist John Hughes, University of Gloucestershire, UK 11 Entangled in Nature: Deleuze’s Modernism, Woolf’s Philosophy, and Spinoza’s Ethology Derek Ryan, University of Kent, UK 12 Dancing with Deleuze: Modernism and the Imperceptible Animal Carrie Rohman, Lafayette College, USA 13 Henry Miller and Deleuze’s “Strange Anglo-American Literature” Andrew Marzoni, University of Minnesota, UK 14 Schizoanalytic Modernism: The Case of Antonin Artaud Ian Buchanan, University of Wollongong, Australia 15 Deleuze’s Perspectival Theory of Modernism and the Baroque Christopher Langlois, University of Western Ontario, Toronto 16 Incorporeal Modernism Claire Colebrook, Penn State University, USA Part 3 Glossary 17 Abstract Machine Aden L. Evens, Dartmouth College, USA 18 Affect Mickey Vallee, University of Lethbridge, Canada 19 Assemblage Justin Litaker, Purdue University, USA 20 Becoming Jason Skeet, Cardiff University, UK 21 Body Without Organs Ian Buchanan, University of Wollongong, Australia 22 Desire Marco Altamirano, Louisiana State University, USA 23 Deterritorialization John Mac Kilgore, Florida State University, USA 24 Memory Nadine Boljkovac, Brown University, USA 25 Minor Literature Christopher Langlois, University of Western Ontario, Canada 26 Plane of Immanence Jon K. Shaw, Goldsmiths College, UK 27 Rhizome Eugene W. Holland, Ohio State University, USA 28 Schizoanalysis Anna Powell, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK 29 Stuttering Mickey Vallee, University of Lethbridge, Canada 30 Time-Image Nadine Boljkovac, Brown University, USA Index