Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari : intersecting lives /

In May 1968, Gilles Deleuze was an established philosopher teaching at the innovative Vincennes University, just outside of Paris. Félix Guattari was a political militant and the director of an unusual psychiatric clinic at La Borde. Their meeting was quite unlikely, yet the two were introduced in a...

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Main Author: Dosse, François, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.
Series:European perspectives.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Betwixt or between
  • Part I : Folds : parallel biographies. Félix Guattari : the psychopolitical itinerary, 1930-1964 ; La Borde : between myth and reality ; Daily life at La Borde ; Testing critical research empirically ; Gilles Deleuze : the hero's brother ; The art of the portrait ; Nietzsche, Bergson, Spinoza : a trio for a vitalist philosophy ; An ontology of difference ; The founding rupture : May 1968
  • Part II : Unfolding : intersecting lives. "Psychoanalysm" under attack ; Anti-Oedipus ; Machine against structure ; "Minor" literature as seen by Deleuze and Guattari ; A thousand plateaus : a geophilosophy of politics ; The CERFI at work ; The "molecular revolution" : Italy, Germany, France ; Deleuze and Foucault : a philosophical friendship ; An alternative to psychiatry? ; Deleuze at Vincennes ; The year of combat : 1977
  • Part III : Surplices : 1980-2007. Guattari between culture and ecology ; Deleuze goes to the movies ; Guattari and aesthetics : consolation during the winter years ; Deleuze dialogues with creation ; An artist philosophy ; Winning over the West ; Around the world ; Two deaths ; Their work at work ; Conclusion.