For a minoritarian ethics of inclusion : a reading of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and its application to contemporary criticism
For a minoritarian ethics of inclusion : a reading of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and its application to contemporary criticism
Together and separately, the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the French psychoanalyst and critic Félix Guattari have produced a vast and, I believe, highly important body of work. This thesis examines their collaborations, which combine Deleuze's substantial work in philosophy and Guattari's work as psychoanalyst, philosophico-political writer and activist. These collaborations are extraordinarily fertile workshops for the production of concepts and distinctions - of which there is a dizzying array - and which, it is a purpose of this thesis to argue, provide an original and powerful purchase on important themes in criticism today.
The organisation and content of this thesis is determined by two conditions: the vast conceptual apparatus of Deleuze and Guattari, and the fact that they have not, or not yet, entered the theoretical canon in the English-speaking world. The aims of the thesis are: firstly, to make the case of Deleuze and Guattari's importance and relevance for contemporary Anglo-American criticism; secondly, to name their project - as a project 'for a minoritarian ethics of inclusion'; thirdly, to isolate their main problematic - as the problematic of oppression and liberation; fourthly, to name the terms of this problematic - modernity, the people, democracy, major/minor, literature; fifthly, to select and define the main concepts that they develop in order to redefine the problematic and its terms - 'artificial territoriality', 'line of flight' or 'line of escape' (ligne de fuite), 'exclusive' and 'inclusive' processes; finally, to unfold the perspective that emerges as a result of the above, and to show its impact on contemporary criticism.
University of Southampton
Goulimari, Pelagia
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1995
Goulimari, Pelagia
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Goulimari, Pelagia
(1995)
For a minoritarian ethics of inclusion : a reading of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and its application to contemporary criticism.
University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis.
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Together and separately, the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the French psychoanalyst and critic Félix Guattari have produced a vast and, I believe, highly important body of work. This thesis examines their collaborations, which combine Deleuze's substantial work in philosophy and Guattari's work as psychoanalyst, philosophico-political writer and activist. These collaborations are extraordinarily fertile workshops for the production of concepts and distinctions - of which there is a dizzying array - and which, it is a purpose of this thesis to argue, provide an original and powerful purchase on important themes in criticism today.
The organisation and content of this thesis is determined by two conditions: the vast conceptual apparatus of Deleuze and Guattari, and the fact that they have not, or not yet, entered the theoretical canon in the English-speaking world. The aims of the thesis are: firstly, to make the case of Deleuze and Guattari's importance and relevance for contemporary Anglo-American criticism; secondly, to name their project - as a project 'for a minoritarian ethics of inclusion'; thirdly, to isolate their main problematic - as the problematic of oppression and liberation; fourthly, to name the terms of this problematic - modernity, the people, democracy, major/minor, literature; fifthly, to select and define the main concepts that they develop in order to redefine the problematic and its terms - 'artificial territoriality', 'line of flight' or 'line of escape' (ligne de fuite), 'exclusive' and 'inclusive' processes; finally, to unfold the perspective that emerges as a result of the above, and to show its impact on contemporary criticism.
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