Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation

Dorothea Olkowski

Published by University of California Press 1999

Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation

Dorothea Olkowski

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520922235

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Dorothea Olkowski's exploration of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze clarifies the gifted French thinker's writings for specialists and nonspecialists alike. Deleuze, she says, accomplished the "ruin of representation," the complete overthrow of hierarchic, organic thought in philosophy, politics, aesthetics, and ethics, as well as in society at large. In Deleuze's philosophy of difference, she discovers the source of a new ontology of change, which in turn opens up the creation of new modes of life and thought, not only in philosophy and feminism but wherever creation is at stake.

The work of contemporary artist Mary Kelly has been central to Olkowski's thinking. In Kelly she finds an artist at work whose creative acts are in themselves the ruin of representation as a whole, and the text is illustrated with Kelly's art. This original and provocative account of Deleuze contributes significantly to a critical feminist politics and philosophy, as well as to an understanding of feminist art.

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Olkowski Dorothea :

Dorothea Olkowski is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She coedited Gilles Deleuze and the Theatre of Philosophy (1992).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
1. Women, Representation, and Power Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Can a Feminist Read Deleuze and Guattari? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
3. Against Phenomenology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
4. Bergson, Matter, and Memory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
5. Creative Evolution: An Ontology of Change Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
6. Beyond the Pleasure Principle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
7. The Ruin of Representation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
8. The Linguistic Signifier and the Ontology of Change Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291