Description:
Seeks to combine feminist voices with Deleuze and Guattari's work
Feminism and Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy share a commitment to reinvention and infinite variation, to follow the paths of individual vicissitudes and the sufferings and joys of the worlds in which we live, and to courageously imagine better futures. This volume seeks to open spaces for the intermingling of feminist voices with Deleuze and Guattari's work, endorsing the transformational potential of such encounters.
Key Features
Evokes the multiplicity of desire and the reformulated concept of love that informs Deleuze and Guattari's understanding of relationality
Creates new theoretical couplings between feminism and Deleuze and Guattari Studies
Each contributor to this volume illuminates a new potential for aligning Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy with the desires and needs of a feminist future
Brief description: Cheri Lynne Carr is Associate Professor of Philosophy at CUNY's LaGuardia Community College. A graduate of the University of Memphis, Dr. Carr researches primarily in Ethics, Feminism, Philosophy for Children, Existentialism & Post-Structuralism, and Kant and the German Enlightenment. Her current research is focused on the work of Deleuze and Guattari and includes subjects of ethics, critique, sublimity, encounter, and the pedagogical and feminist lines of flight opened by schizoanalysis.