Overview
Hanjo Berressem establishes the notion of a schizoanalytic ecology as the most consistent conceptual spine of Flix Guattari's work. He covers the whole range of Guattari's solo work, as well as the books co-authored with Gilles Deleuze. The core of his argument is developed through a rigorous explication and analysis of Guattari's 'Schizoanalytic Cartographies'. This reveals an ecological ontology developed from key concepts such as the informal diagram, the abstract machine and transversality, which is based on the conceptual complementarity of the world (the given) and its creatures (the giving).
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Author: Hanjo Berressem
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474450768
ISBN 10: 1474450768
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 31 August 2021
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Format: Paperback
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Reviews
This volume is a demanding but very rewarding reading of F�lix Guattari's multifaceted schizoanalytic thought--a unique and timely enrichment, in its scope and comprehensiveness, to the growing interpretive and critical literature surrounding the work of the La Borde clinic analyst and activist. Hanjo Berressem, having chosen Schizoanalytic Cartographies as his text-key to the explication of the entire work of Guattari, shows convincingly that analysis, philosophy, activism, as well as art and cultural criticism are different versions of Guattari's ecology and explores fruitfully Guattari's question, how to be adequate to the world, that is, how to develop an overall ecological attitude that would permeate every moment of our lives.--Constantin V. Boundas, Trent University
This volume is a demanding but very rewarding reading of Félix Guattari's multifaceted schizoanalytic thought--a unique and timely enrichment, in its scope and comprehensiveness, to the growing interpretive and critical literature surrounding the work of the La Borde clinic analyst and activist. Hanjo Berressem, having chosen Schizoanalytic Cartographies as his text-key to the explication of the entire work of Guattari, shows convincingly that analysis, philosophy, activism, as well as art and cultural criticism are different versions of Guattari's ecology and explores fruitfully Guattari's question, how to be adequate to the world, that is, how to develop an overall ecological attitude that would permeate every moment of our lives.--Constantin V. Boundas, Trent University
Author Information
Hanjo Berressem, Professor of American Studies, The University of Cologne.
