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Gilles Deleuze
Immanence
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Michel Foucault
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micropolitics
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- ISBN 9781474417884
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Apr 2017
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Maps the context and development of immanence and micropolitics, from Sartre to Deleuze
Christian Gilliam argues that a philosophy of ‘pure’ immanence is integral to the development of an alternative understanding of ‘the political’; one that re-orients our understanding of the self toward the concept of an unconscious or ‘micropolitical’ life of desire. He argues that here, in this ‘life’, is where the power relations integral to the continuation of post-industrial capitalism are most present and most at stake.
Through proving its philosophical context, lineage and political import, Gilliam ultimately comes to outline and justify the conceptual importance and necessity of immanence in understanding politics and resistance, thereby challenging the claim that ontologies of ‘pure’ immanence are either apolitical and/or politically incoherent.
Christian Gilliam is an associate lecturer in political theory at the University of Kent. He has written a selection of articles on French existentialism, political subjectivity and micropolitics.
