Deleuze and the genesis of representation
By: Joe Hughes.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781847062840
Subjects: Deleuze, Gilles, -- 1925-1995; Representation (Philosophy)
Description: Deleuze and the Genesis of Representation is a systematic study of three of Deleuze's central works: Difference and Repetition, The Logic of Sense and, with Guattari, Anti-Oedipus. Hughes shows how each of these three works develops the Husserlian problem of genetic constitution. After an innovative reading of Husserl's late work, Hughes turns to a detailed study of the conceptual structures of Deleuze's three books. He demonstrates that each book is surprisingly similar in its structure and that all three function as nearly identical accounts of the genesis of representation. In a highly original and crucial contribution to Deleuze Studies, this book offers a provocative perspective on many of the questions Deleuze's work has raised: What is the status of representation? Of subjectivity? What is a body without organs? How is the virtual produced, and what exactly is its function within Deleuze's thought as a whole? By contextualizing Deleuze's thought within the radicalization of phenomenology, Hughes is able to suggest solutions to these questions that will be as compelling as they are controversial.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Husserl and Deleuze; title: Husserl, reduction and constitution; title: The logic of sense; title: Part II: Anti-Oedipus; title: The material reduction; title: Desiring-production; title: Social production; title: Part III: Difference and repetition; title: Static genesis : ideas and intensity; title: Dynamic genesis : the production of time; title: Conclusion.