Overview
Discussing different aspects of the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon, Raymond Ruyer, Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari, and including some contemporary thinkers, such as Catherine Malabou, Bernard Stiegler, Bruno Latour, and Donna J. Haraway, Audron ukauskait argues that all these threads can be seen as precursors to organism-oriented ontology. Rather than concentrating on individuals and identities, contemporary philosophy is increasingly interested in processes, multiplicities and potential for change, that is, in those features that define living beings. ukauskait argues that the capacity of living beings for self-organisation, creativity and contingency can act as an antidote to biopolitical power and control in the times of the Anthropocene.
Full Product Details
Author: Audron ukauskait
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.363kg
ISBN: 9781399510547
ISBN 10: 1399510541
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 31 August 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
"This is an extraordinary book. Zukauskaite has marshaled the resources of a wide range of contemporary thinkers-- Simondon, Ruyer, Canguilhem, Deleuze and Guattari, Malabou, Stiegler, Latour and Haraway--to develop an organism-oriented ontology that is focused not only on the body but, more profoundly, on the multiple processes of individuation that constitute the body. Zukauskaite is charting a path to the philosophy of the future that the rest of us can only follow.-- ""Daniel W. Smith, Purdue University"" This is an original and groundbreaking development in contemporary philosophy of life and biology. By defining a new branch of ontology of life as organism-oriented ontology, Audrone Zukauskaite makes important new steps in respondingto the now classical problem of what form biopolitics should take.-- ""James Williams, Honorary Professor of Philosophy, Deakin University"""
Author Information
Audrone Zukauskaite is Chief Researcher in the Department of Contemporary Philosophy at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute. Her publications include From Biopolitics to Biophilosophy (2016, in Lithuanian) and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's Philosophy: The Logic of Multiplicity (2011, in Lithuanian). She co-edited Life in the Posthuman Condition: Critical Responses to the Anthropocene (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism, (Oxford University Press, 2010), Deleuze and Beckett, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophical, Political and Performative Strategies, (Routledge, 2016).
