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Dorothea Olkowski's exploration of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze clarifies the gifted French thinker's writings for specialists and nonspecialists alike. Deleuze, she says, accomplished the "ruin of representation," the complete overthrow of hierarchic, organic thought in philosophy, politics, aesthetics, and ethics, as well as in society at large. In Deleuze's philosophy of difference, she discovers the source of a new ontology of change, which in turn opens up the creation of new modes of life and thought, not only in philosophy and feminism but wherever creation is at stake.
The work of contemporary artist Mary Kelly has been central to Olkowski's thinking. In Kelly she finds an artist at work whose creative acts are in themselves the ruin of representation as a whole, and the text is illustrated with Kelly's art. This original and provocative account of Deleuze contributes significantly to a critical feminist politics and philosophy, as well as to an understanding of feminist art.
The work of contemporary artist Mary Kelly has been central to Olkowski's thinking. In Kelly she finds an artist at work whose creative acts are in themselves the ruin of representation as a whole, and the text is illustrated with Kelly's art. This original and provocative account of Deleuze contributes significantly to a critical feminist politics and philosophy, as well as to an understanding of feminist art.
Price: $33.95
Pages: 310
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
28 October 1999
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520216938
Format: Paperback
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Dorothea Olkowski is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She coedited Gilles Deleuze and the Theatre of Philosophy (1992).
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Women, Representation, and Power
Difference Itself
The Logic of Difference
Difference and Organic Representation
2. Can a Feminist Read Deleuze and Guattari?
Cosmic Empiricism
Negative Desire
Nomadism
A Thousand Tiny Sexes
3. Against Phenomenology
Feminist Narrative
The Origin of the Work of Art
Reconsidering Space and Time
Interval
4. Bergson, Matter, and Memory
Order-Words, Common Language
Interpretation and Force
The Earth Screams; Life ltself
Duration and Memory
Memory and the Second Synthesis of Time
Association of Ideas and the Unconscious
5. Creative Evolution: An Ontology of Change
Tendencies, Not Oppositions
Duration and Space
The Dominance of Action
Spiritual Life
6. Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Biopsychic: Life
The Purloined Letter
The End of Eros
7. The Ruin of Representation
The Dead Body
'The Theater of Terror
A Science of the Singular
8. The Linguistic Signifier and the Ontology of Change
Signification or Sense?
Does the Linguistic Signifier Rule?
Conclusion: Making Language Stutter
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
1. Women, Representation, and Power
Difference Itself
The Logic of Difference
Difference and Organic Representation
2. Can a Feminist Read Deleuze and Guattari?
Cosmic Empiricism
Negative Desire
Nomadism
A Thousand Tiny Sexes
3. Against Phenomenology
Feminist Narrative
The Origin of the Work of Art
Reconsidering Space and Time
Interval
4. Bergson, Matter, and Memory
Order-Words, Common Language
Interpretation and Force
The Earth Screams; Life ltself
Duration and Memory
Memory and the Second Synthesis of Time
Association of Ideas and the Unconscious
5. Creative Evolution: An Ontology of Change
Tendencies, Not Oppositions
Duration and Space
The Dominance of Action
Spiritual Life
6. Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Biopsychic: Life
The Purloined Letter
The End of Eros
7. The Ruin of Representation
The Dead Body
'The Theater of Terror
A Science of the Singular
8. The Linguistic Signifier and the Ontology of Change
Signification or Sense?
Does the Linguistic Signifier Rule?
Conclusion: Making Language Stutter
Notes
Bibliography