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Author: Mary Beth Mader
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.227kg
ISBN: 9781438434322
ISBN 10: 1438434324
Pages: 158
Publication Date: 02 January 2012
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Mary Beth Mader's Sleights of Reason is an original and important perspective on the significance of Deleuze's work for feminist theory, utilizing aspects of his thought hitherto unexploited for those purposes. - philoSOPHIA In addition to creating her own philosophical concept, Mary Beth Mader pulls off something no one else has even attempted, to my knowledge-namely, to bring Gilles Deleuze's rigorous analyses of the nature of the concepts in What Is Philosophy? to bear on the concept of sexuality. The result is an injection of conceptual rigor into debates that hitherto have been more focused on historical considerations. This is a superb book. - Daniel W. Smith, coeditor of Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text Somewhere between mere errors and dialectical illusions, Mader's 'sleights of reason' are biases that derive from the ability of concepts to refer to themselves. Tendentious concepts such as 'norm,' 'bisexuality,' and 'development' purport to refer to actual objects, but actually refer only to their own ability to structure experience. Like Jacquemarts, they hammer home a way of thinking, repeatedly striking us as self-evident features of the world. By showing in detail how the three sleights of her subtitle came to govern modern conceptions of sexuality, Mader frees us from their conceptual bell tower. - Andrew Cutrofello, author of The Owl at Dawn: A Sequel to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
"""Mary Beth Mader's Sleights of Reason is an original and important perspective on the significance of Deleuze's work for feminist theory, utilizing aspects of his thought hitherto unexploited for those purposes."" - philoSOPHIA ""In addition to creating her own philosophical concept, Mary Beth Mader pulls off something no one else has even attempted, to my knowledge-namely, to bring Gilles Deleuze's rigorous analyses of the nature of the concepts in What Is Philosophy? to bear on the concept of sexuality. The result is an injection of conceptual rigor into debates that hitherto have been more focused on historical considerations. This is a superb book."" - Daniel W. Smith, coeditor of Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text ""Somewhere between mere errors and dialectical illusions, Mader's 'sleights of reason' are biases that derive from the ability of concepts to refer to themselves. Tendentious concepts such as 'norm,' 'bisexuality,' and 'development' purport to refer to actual objects, but actually refer only to their own ability to structure experience. Like Jacquemarts, they hammer home a way of thinking, repeatedly striking us as self-evident features of the world. By showing in detail how the three sleights of her subtitle came to govern modern conceptions of sexuality, Mader frees us from their conceptual bell tower."" - Andrew Cutrofello, author of The Owl at Dawn: A Sequel to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit"
Author Information
Mary Beth Mader is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. She is the translator of The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger by Luce Irigaray.
