The Two-Fold Thought of Deleuze and Guattari: Intersections and Animations [Paperback]

Charles J. Stivale. (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 5, 1998 | Series: Critical Perspectives

This timely volume animates key concepts and terminology by applying them to provocative readings of literary texts, films, and cultural phenomena which elucidates Deleuze and Guattari's theoretical contributions, including their "two-fold thought".

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and psychiatrist Felix Guattari wrote a number of influential books together that criticized psychoanalysis from a radical perspective, but their abstract style has proved a stumbling block to many readers. Stivale (The Art of Rupture: Narrative Desire and Duplicity in the Tales of Guy de Maupassant, Univ. of Michigan 1994) aims to remove that obstacle here. He does so by applying the concepts of the two thinkers, such as "schizoanalysis" and the "rhizome," to contemporary culture, using them to discuss topics ranging from Apocalypse Now to Cajun cooking. Throughout, the text emphasizes disunity and challenge to the conventional. Stivale uses to good advantage his personal meetings, engagingly described here, with Deleuze and Guattari. Recommended for academic libraries.?David Gordon, Bowling Green State Univ., OH
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Review

"Stivale has written a most useful introduction to the work of Deleuze and Guattari. And he has produced one of the most interesting demonstrations of its power and importance in contemporary thinking. Hopefully, it will be impossible for people in cultural studies to ignore Deleuze and Guattari's contributions in the future. This is a book for the novice and the expert, the philosopher and the critic." --Lawrence Grossberg, Morris Davis Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Part commentary, part archive, part memoir, part extension and elaboration of key concepts, Stivale's book provides an exhilarating conceptual journey through Deleuze and Guattari's 'two-fold' thought. In the spirit of these authors' own writing, this book is a textual rhizome which combines analysis and commentary with fragments of net discussion, interviews, reports of conferences and personal reminiscences. It offers a wealth of scholarly information and a translation of Deleuze's 1967 article 'How do we recognize structuralism?'. Above all, it animates central concepts of schizo analysis and rhizomatics by reading Deleuze and Guattari's texts alongside the script of Apocalypse Now, the cyberpunk novels of William Gibson, Michel Tournier's Gilles and Jean and the spaces of affect found in Cajun music. These textual encounters provide the occasion for helpful exegesis of such Dailies-Guattarian concepts as assemblage, body without organs, becoming-woman, becoming-cyborg, nomad war machine, ritournello and hecceit, but they also take the reader on a roller coaster ride across the contemporary cultural landscape seen through Deleuzian spectacles. The result is an effortless and entertaining introduction to key concepts of Deleuze and Guattari's collaborative work." --Paul Patton, Department of General Philosophy, University of Sydney

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Product Details

• Paperback: 361 pages
• Publisher: Guilford Press; 1 edition (June 5, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572303263
• ISBN-13: 978-1572303263
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,382,742 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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