A Deleuzian Century?

by Fredric Jameson, Eugene W. Holland, Ian Buchanan

Book Overview

Michel Foucault's suggestion that this century would become known as "Deleuzian" was considered by Gilles Deleuze himself to be a joke "meant to make people who like us laugh, and make everyone else livid." Whether serious or not, Foucault's prediction has had enough of an impact to raise concern about the potential "deification" of this enormously influential French philosopher. Seeking to counter such tendencies toward hagiography-not unknown, particularly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822323923
• ISBN13: 9780822323921
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"