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Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the Sciences

Autor John Protevi
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2013

A deep exploration of the many possibilities inherent in linking Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy to contemporary science, John Protevi’s Life, War, Earth demonstrates how Deleuze’s ontology of the virtual, intensive, and actual can enhance our understanding of important issues in cognitive science, biology, and geography. Protevi illustrates how a Deleuzian approach can illuminate a wide range of concerns and subjects, including ancient and contemporary warfare, human individuation processes, the “granularity problem,” panpsychism, the E. coli bacterium, the assassination attempt on U.S. representative Gabrielle Giffords, and the affective dimensions of the Occupy movement.

Frequently ambitious but always rooted in the empirical, Life, War, Earth shows how the social and the somatic are not opposed to each other but are interwoven on three time scales—the evolutionary, the developmental, and the behavioral—and on three political scales—the geopolitical, the bio-neuro-political, and the technopolitical.

Deeply attuned to the internalities of the thought of Deleuze, the book offers a unique reading of his corpus and a useful method for applying Deleuzian techniques to the natural sciences, the social sciences, political phenomena, and contemporary events.



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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780816681020
ISBN-10: 0816681023
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Minnesota Press
Colecția Univ Of Minnesota Press

Notă biografică


John Protevi is Phyllis M. Taylor Professor of French Studies and professor of philosophy at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic (Minnesota, 2009); Time and Exteriority; Political Physics; and coauthor of Deleuze and Geophilosophy. He is also the editor of A Dictionary of Continental Philosophy.


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Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction I: Deleuze and the Sciences

Introduction II: Varela and Bodies Politic

Part I. Geophilosophy: Earth and War

1. Geo-Hydro-Solar-Bio-Techno-Politics

2. The Act of Killing in Contemporary Warfare

3. Music and Ancient Warfare

Part II. Cognitive Science: Brain and Body

4. Dynamic Interactionism

5. The Political Economy of Consciousness

6. The Granularity Problem

7. Adding Deleuze to the Mix

Part III. Biology: Life and Mind

8. Larval Subjects, Enaction, and E. coli Chemotaxis

9. Mind in Life, Mind in Process

10. The Virtual Status of “Unexpressed Genetic Variation”

Notes

Bibliography

Publication History

Index




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John Protevi’s Life, War, Earth demonstrates how Gilles Deleuze’s ontology of the virtual, intensive, and actual can enhance our understanding of important issues in cognitive science, biology, and geography. The book offers a unique reading of Deleuze’s corpus and a useful method for applying Deleuzian techniques to the natural sciences, the social sciences, political phenomena, and contemporary events.