1st Edition

Deleuze's Way Essays in Transverse Ethics and Aesthetics

By Ronald Bogue Copyright 2007
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

Addressing the essential question of the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in Deleuze's philosophy this book provides clear indications of the practical implications of Deleuze's approach to the arts through detailed analyses of the ethical dimension of artistic activity in literature, music, and film. Bogue examines Deleuze's "transverse way" of interrelating the ethical and the... Read more
Introduction The Transverse Way Du côté de chez Deleuze; Chapter 1 Immanent Ethics; Chapter 2 Minority, Territory, Music; Chapter 3 Violence in Three Shades of Metal Death, Doom and Black; Chapter 4 Search, Swim and See Deleuze’s Apprenticeship in Signs and Pedagogy of Images; Chapter 5 Tragedy, Sight and Sound The Birth of Godard’s Prénom Carmen from the Nietzschean Spirit of Music; Chapter 6 Bergsonian Fabulation and the People to Come; Chapter 7 Re-Viewing Deleuze’s Sacher-Masoch; Chapter 8 Apology for Nomadology; Chapter 9 Nomadism, Globalism and Cultural Studies; Chapter 10 Nomadology’s Trial by Proxy;

Biography

Professor Ronald Bogue is Professor in the Comparative Literature Department, University of Georgia, USA.

'Drawing on years of insight into the works of Gilles Deleuze, Ronald Bogue provides a careful and systematic study of Deleuze’s transverse way, the myriad diagonal paths connecting seemingly incommunicable domains: Deleuze’s immanent ethics as they correspond to the themes of the minor in literature and music; the construction of concepts through a pedagogy of images and the efficacy of fabulation; nomadology considered both as an expression of actual nomadic practices and as a comparative poetics for understanding globalization. Through this exploration of the Deleuzian method, Bogue reveals how these transversal connections constitute so many ways of thinking, of creating, and of multiplying variations that enliven and conjoin the arts and philosophy.' Charles J. Stivale, Wayne State University, USA ’Deleuze's Way offers a thorough and much documented overview of Deleuzian thought and its bearings on contemporary artistic theory... Through his comprehensive study of the 'transverse way' [...] Bogue will no doubt continue to the wider dissemination of Deleuze's ideas...’ Cercles