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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452084303321

Autore

Dowd Garin

Titolo

Abstract machines [[electronic resource] ] : Samuel Beckett and philosophy after Deleuze and Guattari / / Garin Dowd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Rodopi, 2007

ISBN

1-282-26531-8

9786612265310

94-012-0442-X

1-4356-1294-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Collana

Faux titre, , 0167-9392 ; ; no. 295

Disciplina

848.91409

Soggetti

Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Note on references -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Shadow Hospitality: Beckett and Philosophy after Deleuze and Guattari -- Beckett’s Abstract Machines: from Murphy to The Lost Ones -- From Monadology to Nomadology: Leibniz, Deleuze, Beckett -- Matter, Judgement and Immanence in How It Is -- “Vasts apart”: Deleuze, Phenomenology and Worstward Ho -- Beckett’s ‘Dislocations’ -- “l’insurrection des molécules” -- Works Cited -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

What can philosophy bring to the reading of Beckett? Combining intertextual analysis with a ‘schizoanalytic genealogy’ derived from the authors of L’Anti-Œdipe , Garin Dowd’s Abstract Machines: Samuel Beckett and Philosophy after Deleuze and Guattari offers an innovative response to this much debated question. The author focuses on zones of encounter and thresholds of engagement between Beckett’s writing and a range of philosophers (among them Spinoza, Leibniz and Kant) and philosophical concepts. Beckett’s writing impacts in a variety of ways on Deleuze and Guattari’s thought, and, in particular, resonates with Deleuze’s contributions to the history of philosophy (in books such as Le Pli: Leibniz et le baroque ), and his ‘critical and clinical’



approach to literature. Furthermore, the books co-written with Guattari, concerned as they are with the ‘molecularization’ of the discipline of philosophy in the name of ‘thinking otherwise’, reveal themselves in a new light when explored in conjunction with Beckett’s œuvre . With its arresting perspectives on a wide range of Beckett’s works, Abstract Machines will appeal to academics and postgraduate students interested in the philosophical aspects of his writing. Its engagement with alternative contributions to the question of Beckett and philosophy, including that of Alain Badiou, renders it a timely and provocative intervention in contemporary debates on the relationship between literature and philosophy, both within the field of Beckett studies and beyond.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960105003321

Titolo

Advancing prion science : guidance for the National Prion Research Program, interim report / / Rick Erdtmann and Laura Sivitz, editors ; Committee on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies: Assessment of Relevant Science, Medical Follow-Up Agency, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : The National Academies Press, 2003

ISBN

9780309168595

0309168597

9780309504409

0309504406

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xx, 105 p

Altri autori (Persone)

ErdtmannRick

SivitzLaura

Disciplina

616.8/3

Soggetti

Prion diseases - Research - United States

Prion diseases - Diagnosis - United States

Medicine, Military

Public health - United States

Slow virus diseases - Prevention

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease - Prevention

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy

Prion Diseases - prevention & control

Public Health

Prion Diseases - diagnosis

Military Medicine

Public Policy



Health Policy

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Reviewers -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Figures, Tables, and Boxes -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Prion Diseases and Their Challenges -- 3 Diagnostics for Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies -- 4 Research Recommendations for TSE Diagnostics -- 5 Prion Research Infrastructure -- 6 Risks to the U.S. Military -- Appendix Study Methods.

Sommario/riassunto

In Advancing Prion Science, the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Assessment of Relevant Science recommends priorities for research and investment to the Department of Defense's National Prion Research Program (NPRP). Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), also called prion diseases, are invariably fatal neurodegenerative infectious diseases that include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (commonly called mad cow disease), chronic wasting disease, scrapie, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. To develop antemortem diagnostics or therapies for TSEs, the committee concludes that NPRP should invest in basic research specifically to elucidate the structural features of prions, the molecular mechanisms of prion replication, the mechanisms of TSE pathogenesis, and the physiological function of prions' normal cellular isoform. Advancing Prion Science provides the first comprehensive reference on present knowledge about all aspects of TSEs' from basic science to the U.S. research infrastructure, from diagnostics to surveillance, and from prevention to treatment. This report summarizes the progress thus far.