Deleuze and Guattari's work has today become ubiquitous in the humanities and social sciences, being regularly drawn on by a vast array of subjects. Throughout their careers, Deleuze and Guattari also engaged with a myriad of disciplines; yet they declared themselves that “Philosophy is not interdisciplinary”. This apparent contradiction has rarely been explicitly confronted by scholars. Fortunately, however, Deleuze and Guattari left us a number of clues in their works signaling how to approach this apparent impasse.
These clues amount to a complex and penetrating, if un-unified, theory of disciplinarity and cross-disciplinary articulation. Energized by recent developments in critical transdisciplinarity studies, this volume analyzes and evaluates instances of disciplinarity and transdisciplinarity within Deleuze and Guattari’s shared and respective bodies of work.
The first volume in English specifically devoted to examining Deleuze and Guattari’s work using this framework, this book both contributes to the field of critical transdisciplinarity studies and in doing so helps shed light on the heart of Deleuze and Guattari’s intellectual project.
Edited by:
Guillaume Collett (University of Kent UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 399g
ISBN: 9781350259546
ISBN 10: 1350259543
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 20 May 2021
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Philosophy, Disciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity in Deleuze and Guattari Guillaume Collett, University of Kent, UK 1. Philosophy and History of Philosophy. Deleuze as a Trainee Guard of Philosophy’s Epistemological Borders Giuseppe Bianco, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil 2. Guattari, Transdisciplinarity and the Experimental Transformation of Research Andrew Goffey, The University of Nottingham, UK 3. The Semiotics of De-Modeling: Peirce and Guattari on the Diagram Guillaume Collett, University of Kent, UK and Chryssa Sdrolia, University of Portsmouth, UK 4. Bachelard and Deleuze on and with Experimental Science, Experimental Philosophy, and Experimental Music Iain Campbell, University of Edinburgh, UK 5. Diagrammatic Transdisciplinarity. Thought outside Discipline Kamini Vellodi, The University of Edinburgh, UK 6. The History of Philosophy Conceived Of as Mannerist Portraiture Sjoerd van Tuinen, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands 7. Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better: The Role Of Literature In Deleuze’s Transcendental Empiricism Emma Ingala, The Complutense University of Madrid, Spain 8. Deleuze: Practical Philosophy. The Trans/disciplinary basis of the Deleuzian conception of Immanence Guillaume Collett, University of Kent, UK 9. Architectonics without Foundations Edward Willatt, Independent Scholar 10. Independence, Alliance, and Echo: Deleuze on the Relationship between Philosophy, Science, and Art Gavin Rae, The Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Index
Guillaume Collett is Research Fellow in the Centre for Critical Thought, University of Kent, UK.
Reviews for Deleuze, Guattari, and the Problem of Transdisciplinarity
Like many academics, I once thought that it was obvious what the term ‘transdisciplinary’ meant, as with its various related terms (e.g. inter-, cross-, multi-). No longer. This book compels its reader to rethink such presumptions, whilst at the same time providing a fresh lens through which to explore Deleuze and Guattari’s work – an impressive achievement. * Craig Lundy, Senior Lecturer in Social Theory, Nottingham Trent University, UK * Over the past decades, the work of Deleuze and Guattari has given rise to creative thinking throughout academia. However, while always drawing alliances and creating resonances with other disciplines, they themselves kept insisting on studying the questions of philosophy. This collection gives us a series of much-needed analyses of their highly original ideas on transdisciplinary or transversal thinking. It is a must-read for everyone in theory. * Rick Dolphijn, Associate Professor of Theories of Arts and Culture, Utrecht University, the Netherlands * This volume presents transdisciplinarity as a genuine problem, in contrast to those who pander to it as a fashionable leitmotif of contemporary scholarship. Situated firmly within the philosophical work of Deleuze and Guattari, the contributors explore a variety of overlapping contexts within and beyond their oeuvre, without ever losing sight of the generative power of this problem to counter-actualise the present. To read this collection is to come away with a richer understanding of what Deleuze and Guattari mean by philosophy and a deeper appreciation of what must be done to save philosophy from withering on the vine of neoliberalism. Collett's introduction sets the scene wonderfully and the contributors deliver subtle insights into transdisciplinarity in abundance. It is a vibrant and vital collection for everyone interested in thinking, understood as a process of problematisation * Iain MacKenzie, Director of the Centre for Critical Thought, University of Kent, UK *
