Deleuzian Concepts by Patton, Paul -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction PART I PHILOSOPHY, CONCEPTS, AND LANGUAGE

1 - Mobile Concepts, Metaphor, and the Problem of Referentiality

Antirepresentationalism and Mobile Concepts Deleuze and Derrida on Concept and Metaphor Mobile Concepts 1: The Order-Word Mobile Concepts 2: The War Machine The Problem of Referentiality

2 - Deleuze, Derrida, and the Political Function of Philosophy

Deconstructive Analysis of Ethical and Political Concepts Absolute and Relative Deterritorialization Pure Events and the Event to Come

3 - Redescriptive Philosophy: Deleuze and Rorty

Postmetaphysical Ironism Antirepresentationalism Philosophical Constructivism Events and Language The Politics of Redescription

PART II COLONIZATION AND DECOLONIZATION IN HISTORY AND LITERATURE

4 - History, Becoming, and Events

Structure, Genesis, and Sense: The Metaphysics of Pure Events Events Untimely and Sublime The Internal Dynamics of Events

5 - The Event of Colonization

Stoicism and Events Events and Time Events, Language, and Concepts The Problem of Colonization

6 - Becoming–Animal and Pure Life in Coetzee’s Disgrace

South Africa, Becoming-Animal, and the People to Come Becoming-Minor and Becoming-Animal Impersonal Life: The Life We Share with Animals

PART III NORMATIVE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

7 - Philosophy, Politics, and Political Normativity

Deleuzian Political Philosophy? Normativity and the Political in Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus Paradoxical Normativity Toward a Deleuzian Theory of Right? Deleuze’s Turn toward Political Normativity Becoming-Democratic Conclusion

8 - Deleuze and Democracy

What Is Democracy? Deleuze Critical of Democracy? Immanence, Transcendence, and the Creation of Rights Majority and Minority Philosophy, Politics, and Opinion Conclusion

9 - Utopian Political Philosophy: Deleuze and Rawls

Extravagant versus Realistic Utopianism Immanent Utopianism and Becoming-Democratic Immanent Criticism and Considered Opinion Conceptual and Political Constructivism Utopianism and Conceptual Mobility: Justice as a Mobile Concept

Reference Matter - Notes Bibliography Index Cultural Memory in the Present