The Invention of a People: Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political (Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies) - Hardcover

Sholtz, Janae

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748685359 ISBN 13: 9780748685356

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2015

Synopsis

A multi-layered reading of the intersections between two of the most influential figures in contemporary philosophy

The Invention of a People explores the residual relation between Heidegger's thought and Deleuze's novelty, focusing on the parallels between their emphasis on the connection of earth, art and a people-to-come.

Contextualising the problematic of a people-to-come within a larger political and philosophical context of post-war thinkers of community such as Bataille, Blanchot and Nancy, Sholtz offers a creative approach to the work of these two thinkers. Deleuze's project is therefore cast as both an extension and radicalisation of the Heideggerian themes of immanence, ontological difference and the transformative potential of art.

Presenting interstitial readings of Paul Klee, Kostos Axelos, Arthur Rimbaud, the 1960's art collective Fluxus and artist Brian Fridge, she invents creative encounters which act as provocations from the outside, opening new lines of flight and previously unthought terrain. Ultimately, she develops a diagrammatic image of a people-to-come that is constantly in flux and can answer the demands of the untimely future.

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From the Back Cover:

This is a groundbreaking study of remarkable lucidity and depth thatoffers an insightful comparison of two of the most influential philosophers ofthe twentieth century.  In fact it ismuch more than a comparison.  One whoreads this book is rewarded with an extraordinarily insightful, independentaccount of both Heidegger and Deleuze and this is what makes the comparisons socogent and effective. Sholtz also effectively shows the indissoluble connectionbetween aesthetics and politics in both of these authors and arguespersuasively that the future of politics will follow the path Heidegger andDeleuze have opened.
Professor Walter Brogan, Villanova University

About the Author:

Janae Sholtz is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Alvernia University. She has published articles in PhiloSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism, Deleuze Studies, and the Journal of Comparative and Continental Philosophy. She contributed a chapter to The Continuum Companion to Heidegger edited by François Raffoul and Eric S. Nelson (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Between Deleuze and Foucault edited by Daniel W. Smith, Thomas Nail and Nicolae Morar (Edinburgh University Press, 2016). Dr. Sholtz researches primarily in 20th-century and contemporary continental philosophy. Her current research is focused on the work of Deleuze and Guattari and their interlocutors, and includes subjects of dramatisation, the nature of the event, transgression, immanence, powers of affect and the conjunction of the aesthetic and the political.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0748685359
• ISBN 13: 9780748685356
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304