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Title

Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari : intersecting lives / François Dosse ; translated by Deborah Glassman.

Author

Dosse, François, 1950-

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Glassman, Deborah

Description

ix, 651 p., [18] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

In May 1968, Gilles Deleuze was an established philosopher teaching at the innovative Vincennes University, just outside of Paris. Félix Guattari was a political militant and the director of an unusual psychiatric clinic at La Borde. Their meeting was quite unlikely, yet the two were introduced in an arranged encounter of epic consequence. From that moment on, Deleuze and Guattari engaged in a surprising, productive partnership, collaborating on several groundbreaking works, including Anti-Oedipus, What Is Philosophy? and A Thousand Plateaus. François Dosse, a prominent French intellectual known for his work on the Annales School, structuralism, and biographies of the pivotal intellectuals Paul Ricoeur, Pierre Chaunu, and Michel de Certeau, examines the prolific if improbable relationship between two men of distinct and differing sensibilities. Drawing on unpublished archives and hundreds of personal interviews, Dosse elucidates a collaboration that lasted more than two decades, underscoring the role that family and history--particularly the turbulent time of May 1968--play in their monumental work. He also takes the measure of Deleuze and Guattari's posthumous fortunes and the impact of their thought on intellectual, academic, and professional circles. --Publisher description.

Series Statement

European perspectives

Uniform Title

• Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari. English
• European perspectives

Alternative Title

• Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari.
• Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
• Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

Subjects

• 1900-1999
• Philosophers > France > 20th century
• France
• Psychology, Social
• Psychoanalysis > history
• Guattari, Félix, 1930-1992
• Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995

Note

• Translated from the French.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : Betwixt or between -- Part I : Folds : parallel biographies. Félix Guattari : the psychopolitical itinerary, 1930-1964 ; La Borde : between myth and reality ; Daily life at La Borde ; Testing critical research empirically ; Gilles Deleuze : the hero's brother ; The art of the portrait ; Nietzsche, Bergson, Spinoza : a trio for a vitalist philosophy ; An ontology of difference ; The founding rupture : May 1968 -- Part II : Unfolding : intersecting lives. "Psychoanalysm" under attack ; Anti-Oedipus ; Machine against structure ; "Minor" literature as seen by Deleuze and Guattari ; A thousand plateaus : a geophilosophy of politics ; The CERFI at work ; The "molecular revolution" : Italy, Germany, France ; Deleuze and Foucault : a philosophical friendship ; An alternative to psychiatry? ; Deleuze at Vincennes ; The year of combat : 1977 -- Part III : Surplices : 1980-2007. Guattari between culture and ecology ; Deleuze goes to the movies ; Guattari and aesthetics : consolation during the winter years ; Deleuze dialogues with creation ; An artist philosophy ; Winning over the West ; Around the world ; Two deaths ; Their work at work ; Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9780231145602 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0231145608 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780231518673 (e-book)
• 0231518676 (e-book)

LCCN

^^2009047835

OCLC

• 465868542
• SCSB-11427944

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library