Deleuze and the Body
Laura Guillaume and Joe Hughes
Abstract
This book is a collection of chapters on the approaches and applications of Deleuze's philosophy to the body. Using a variety of contemporary cultural, scientific, and philosophical lines of enquiry, the contributors produce a multidisciplinary view of the Deleuzian body, inviting us to look afresh at art, movement, and literature. The Deleuzian body is not necessarily a human body, but the lines of enquiry here all illuminate the idea of the human body and thinking about formation, origins, and becoming in relation to power, creativity, and affect. The book brings a new perspective to Spinoza ... More
This book is a collection of chapters on the approaches and applications of Deleuze's philosophy to the body. Using a variety of contemporary cultural, scientific, and philosophical lines of enquiry, the contributors produce a multidisciplinary view of the Deleuzian body, inviting us to look afresh at art, movement, and literature. The Deleuzian body is not necessarily a human body, but the lines of enquiry here all illuminate the idea of the human body and thinking about formation, origins, and becoming in relation to power, creativity, and affect. The book brings a new perspective to Spinozan and Nietzschean ideas of the body.
Keywords:
Deleuze's philosophy,
Deleuzian body,
art,
movement,
literature,
human body,
formation,
origins,
becoming,
power
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780748638642 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: March 2012 |
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638642.001.0001 |
