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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457154103321

Titolo

Secrets of becoming [[electronic resource] ] : negotiating Whitehead, Deleuze, and Butler / / edited by Roland Faber and Andrea M. Stephenson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-8232-3212-3

0-8232-7505-1

0-8232-3210-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FaberRoland <1960->

StephensonAndrea M

Disciplina

192

Soggetti

Becoming (Philosophy)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

The essays from the conference have been substantially rev. and new material has been added.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; Foreword; Negotiating Becoming; Negotiating Events and Multiplicities; Whitehead, Post-Structuralism, and Realism; Nomad Thought: Deleuze, Whitehead, and the Adventure of Thinking; Transcendental Empiricism in Deleuze and Whitehead; Can We Be Wolves? Intersections between Deleuze's Difference and Repetition and Butler's Performativity; Negotiating Bodies and Societies; Butler and Whitehead on the (Social) Body; Conflict; Becoming through Multiplicity: Staying in the Middle of Whitehead's and Deleuze-Guattari's Philosophies of Life; Negotiating Immanence and Divinity

Surrationality and Chaosmos: For a More Deleuzian Whitehead (with a Butlerian Intervention)Divine Possibilities: Becoming an Order without Law; ''God Is a Lobster'': Whitehead's Receptacle Meets the Deleuzian Sieve; Uninteresting Truth? Tedium and Event in Postmodernity; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Secrets of Becoming brings into conversation modes of thought traditionally held apart: WhiteheadGs philosophy of the event, DeleuzeGs philosophy of multiplicity, and Judith ButlerGs philosophy of



gender difference. Why should one try to connect these strains of thinking? What might make the work of these thinkers negotiable with one another? This volume finds that bridge in an emphasis on GbecomingG that secretly defines the philosophies of Whitehead, Deleuze, and Butler. Its three sections investigate their surprising confluence in a Gphilosophy of becomingG in relation to the question of th