Deleuze's Literary Clinic Criticism and the Politics of Symptoms

Name: Deleuze's Literary Clinic Criticism and the Politics of Symptoms
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ISBN: 9780748650552

ISBN-10: 0748650555

ISBN-13: 9780748650552

Edition: 2012

Authors: Aidan Tynan

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The first study of Deleuze's critical and clinical projectAidan Tynan addresses Deleuze's assertion, that 'literature is an enterprise of health', and shows how a concern of health and illness was a characteristic of his philosophy as a whole, from his earliest works to his groundbreaking collaborations with Guattari, to his final, enigmatic statements on 'life'.He explains why alcoholism, anorexia, manic depression and schizophrenia are key concepts in Deleuze's literary theory, and shows how, with the turn to schizoanalysis, literature takes on a crucial political and ethical role in helping us to diagnose our present pathologies and articulate the possibilities of a health to come.Key…

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List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 5/15/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 9.30" wide x 6.30" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Aidan Tynan received a PhD from the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University. He has edited a special issue of the journal Deleuze Studies entitled 'Deleuze and the Symptom'.



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction: From Symptomatology to Schizoanalysis



A Case of Thought



The Paradox of the Body and the Genesis of Form and Content



Symptoms, Repetition and the Productive Death Instinct



The Identity of the Critical and the Clinical



The People to Come


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index