A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy - Paperback

by Henry Somers-Hall (Editor), Jeffrey A. Bell (Editor), James Williams (Editor)

This volume brings together a team of international specialists on Deleuze and Guattari to provide in-depth critical studies of each plateau of their major work, A Thousand Plateaus. It combines an overview of the text with deep scholarship and brings a renewed focus on the philosophical significance of their project.
A Thousand Plateaus represents a whole new way of doing philosophy. This collection supports the critical reception of Deleuze and Guattari's text as one of the most important and influential works of modern theory.

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'Three of Deleuze and Guattari's foremost interpreters have assembled a fine and diverse collection of essays from prominent contemporary voices. This volume is at once comprehensive and provocative, exploring the many dimensions of one of the twentieth century's most vital philosophical texts. For those not familiar with A Thousand Plateaus this collection is a great place to start; for those who've been reading Deleuze and Guattari for years, this will provide new directions for future reading.' Claire Colebrook, Penn State University 'This is a much needed book. Arguably their most important book, A Thousand Plateaus remains to be fully understood. Somers-Hall, Bell and Williams - important Deleuze and Guattari scholars in their own right - have brought together the best interpreters of Deleuze and Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy is not only a major contribution to our understanding of Deleuze and Guattari but also to thought itself.' Leonard Lawlor, Penn State University This volume brings together a team of international specialists on Deleuze and Guattari to provide in-depth critical studies of each plateau of their major work, A Thousand Plateaus. It combines an overview of the text with deep scholarship and brings a renewed focus on the philosophical significance of their project. A Thousand Plateaus does not simply represent a new philosophical position, but rather a whole new way of doing philosophy. This collection supports the critical reception of Deleuze and Guattari's text as one of the most important and influential works of modern theory. Key Features - Emphasises the philosophical nature of A Thousand Plateaus - Provides detailed coverage of the text as a whole - Brings together cutting edge research from some of the leading lights in scholarship on Deleuze and Guattari - An ideal companion to a plateau by plateau reading of Deleuze and Guattari's work Henry Somers-Hall is Reader in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. Jeffrey A. Bell is Professor Philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University. James Williams is Honorary Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University, Australia. Cover image: 'C5' 30cm x 40cm graphite on paper (c) Emma McNally Cover design: www.paulsmithdesign.com [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN [PPC] 978-0-7486-9726-7 ISBN [cover] 978-0-7486-9728-1 Barcode

Author Biography

Henry Somers-Hall is a Reader in philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Hegel, Deleuze, and the Critique of Representation (2012) and Deleuze's Difference and Repetition (2013), and co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Deleuze (2012). He is interested in the interrelations of German idealism, phenomenology, and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.

Jeffrey A. Bell is Professor of Philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University. He has recently been a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, during which time much of this book was written. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Deleuze and Deleuze and Guattari, including Deleuze and Guattari's What is Philosophy?: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), Deleuze's Hume (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos (University of Toronto Press, 2006) and The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism (University of Toronto Press, 1998). Bell is co-editor with Paul Livingston and Andrew Cutrofello of Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide: Pluralist Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2015) and with Claire Colebrook of Deleuze and History (Edinburgh University Press, 2009).

James Williams is Honorary Professor of Philosophy and member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization at Deakin University. He has published widely on contemporary French philosophy and is currently working on a critique of the idea of extended mind from the point of view of process philosophy.