DELEUZISM A Metacommentary

Ian Buchanan

The conviction that Gilles Deleuze is doing something radical in his work has been accompanied by a corresponding anxiety as to how to read it. In this rigorous and lucid work, Ian Buchanan takes up the challenge by answering the following questions: How should we read Deleuze? How should we read with Deleuze?

• Contents:
• Part One: Deleuzism
• Introduction: The Problem of the Two Books
• 1. Prehistory, or the Adequacy of Desire
• 2. Deleuze's Project: The Method in his Madness
• 3. Transcendental Empiricist Ethics.
• Part Two: Applied Deleuzism
• 4. Becoming-woman and the World-Historical
• 5. Assemblages and Utopia, or Things don't have to be this Way
• 6. Schizophrenic Utopianism
• 7. Deleuze and Popular Music.
• Conclusion: A Dialectical Deleuze?
• Bibliography.   Index.

ISBN 0-8223-2548-9