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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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Author:   Dorothea Olkowski
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780520216938

ISBN 10:   0520216938
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   28 October 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Women, Representation, and Power Difference Itself The Logic of Difference Difference and Organic Representation 2. Can a Feminist Read Deleuze and Guattari? Cosmic Empiricism Negative Desire Nomadism A Thousand Tiny Sexes 3. Against Phenomenology Feminist Narrative The Origin of the Work of Art Reconsidering Space and Time Interval 4. Bergson, Matter, and Memory Order-Words, Common Language Interpretation and Force The Earth Screams; Life ltself Duration and Memory Memory and the Second Synthesis of Time Association of Ideas and the Unconscious 5. Creative Evolution: An Ontology of Change Tendencies, Not Oppositions Duration and Space The Dominance of Action Spiritual Life 6. Beyond the Pleasure Principle Biopsychic: Life The Purloined Letter The End of Eros 7. The Ruin of Representation The Dead Body 'The Theater of Terror A Science of the Singular 8. The Linguistic Signifier and the Ontology of Change Signification or Sense? Does the Linguistic Signifier Rule? Conclusion: Making Language Stutter Notes Bibliography

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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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