Overview
Bringing together Deleuze, Blanchot, and Foucault, this book provides a detailed and original exploration of the ideas that influenced Deleuze's thought leading up to and throughout his cinema volumes and, as a result, proposes a new definition of art. Examining Blanchot's suggestion that art and dream are “outside” of power, as imagination has neither reality nor truth, and Foucault's theory that power forms knowledge by valuing life, Eugene Brent Young relates these to both Deleuze's philosophy of time and his work with Guattari on art. In doing so, he uses case studies from literature and popular film, including Kafka's Castle, Villeneuve's Arrival, and Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. Providing important new insights for those working in literary and cinematic studies, this book advances a new definition of art as that which reverses the realities and truths of power to express obscure ideas and values beyond both our exterior and interior worlds.
Full Product Details
Author: Eugene B. Young (Le Moyne College, Syracuse, USA)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9781350272408
ISBN 10: 135027240
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 24 August 2023
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Young uses the work of Deleuze and Blanchot to offer a new theory of literature and cinema, one that removes us from the political snares of our current situation to an outside that is not just another trap. His book is a deep read and an original contribution. --Todd May, Class of 1941 Memorial Professor of the Humanities, Clemson University, USA If you have thought, as I have, that Blanchot is the key to understanding Deleuze, then you must read this book. There is no other that better explains the importance of Blanchot to appreciate Deleuze's interpretation of art, literature, and cinema, whose aim is to make us believe in the world again beyond the limited possibilities given to us by power. --William Large, Associate Professor in Continental Philosophy, University of Gloucestershire, UK
Young uses the work of Deleuze and Blanchot to offer a new theory of literature and cinema, one that removes us from the political snares of our current situation to an outside that is not just another trap. His book is a deep read and an original contribution. * Todd May, Class of 1941 Memorial Professor of the Humanities, Clemson University, USA * If you have thought, as I have, that Blanchot is the key to understanding Deleuze, then you must read this book. There is no other that better explains the importance of Blanchot to appreciate Deleuze's interpretation of art, literature, and cinema, whose aim is to make us believe in the world again beyond the limited possibilities given to us by power. * William Large, Associate Professor in Continental Philosophy, University of Gloucestershire, UK *
Author Information
Eugene B. Young is Professor of Practice in Philosophy and English at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, USA. He is the primary author and editor of The Deleuze and Guattari Dictionary (Bloomsbury, 2013).
