Description:
These 20 essays by Ronald Bogue on Gille Deleuze's though touch on cinema, music, theatre, painting, fiction, education, ecology, ethology, politics, technology and philosophy. He creates paradigmatic occasions of thinking with Deleuze - thinking with him and through him, following diverse lines of his thought and engaging concepts to extend his thought into areas Deleuze did not explore. Every one of these frequently cited, classic essays has been reworked to bring them up-to-date with the latest research in Deleuze Studies. Each offers a separate entry into Deleuze's thought; together they illuminate the pivotal role the arts play in the political project of inventing a people to come and the broader project of promoting an ecologically viable new earth.
Brief description: Ronald Bogue is Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Literature and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia.
Review Quotes: Ron Bogue has long been one of the most respected and rigorous readers of Deleuze. Few critics can claim comparativist knowledge and sensibility commensurate to Deleuze's philosophy; fewer still have the pedagogical gift for conveying this material. But even by this measure, Bogue's new book, Thinking with Deleuze, is a prodigious achievement. Drawing on the vast archive of Deleuze's work, with and without Guattari, and engaging its population of philosophers, writers, painters, filmmakers, musicians etc., Bogue ultimately extends Deleuze's thought into new questions, problems, and circumstances--thinking otherwise. Among the many highlights, readers will discover formidable reflections on Deleuze in relation to music, science-fiction, non-Western philosophy, Raymond Ruyer and animal studies. Thinking with Deleuze is a magnum opus.-- "Gregory Flaxman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill"