Organs without bodies: on Deleuze and its consequences
Editorial ROUTLEDGE
Mainland Spain
- Publisher ROUTLEDGE
- ISBN13 9780415969215
- ISBN10 0415969212
- Type BOOK
- Pages 217
- Published 2004
- Bookbinding Rustic
Subjects
Contemporary PhilosophyOrgans without bodies: on Deleuze and its consequences
Editorial ROUTLEDGE
Mainland Spain
Book details
The latest book by the Slovenian critic Slavoj Zizek takes the work of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze as the beginning of a dazzling inquiry into the realms of politics, philosophy, film, and psychoanalysis. This is a polemical and surprising work. Deleuze, famous for his Anti-Oedipus (written with Felix Guattari), emerges here as someone much closer to the Oedipus he would disavow. Similarly, Zizek argues for Deleuze's proximity to Hegel, from whom the French philosopher distanced himself. Zizek turns some Deleuzian concepts around in order to explore the "organs without bodies" in such films as Fight Club and the works of Hitchcock. Finally, he attacks what he sees as the "radical chic" Deleuzians (he names, among them, Hardt and Negri's Empire), arguing that such projects turn Deleuze into an ideologist of today's "digital capitalism."