Towards a Political Anthropology in the Work of Gilles Deleuze
‘Political anthropology’ as the major contemporary importance in Deleuze’s work This work explores the significance of two recurring themes in the thought of Gilles Deleuze: his critique of psychoanalysis and praise for Anglo-American literature. Tracing the overlooked influence of English writer D.H. Lawrence on Deleuze, Rockwell Clancy shows how these themes ultimately bear on two […]
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Leuven University Press
Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Preface

From Psychoanalysis and Literature to Political Anthropology

Introduction

Deleuze, Politics, and the Problem of Human Nature

1. Politics and the Problem of Human Nature: Political Anthropology

2. Deleuze and the Problem of Human Nature: Philosophical Anthropology

Chapter One

The Metaphysics of Psychoanalysis

Introduction: Psychoanalysis as Idealism and D.H. Lawrence

1. Philosophy and Literature in Lawrence

2. Psychoanalytic Reading in Freud, Bonaparte, and Lacan

3. A Note on “Pollyanalytics” and Problem of Critique

4. Praxis and Philosophical Anthropology in Marx and Engels

5. A Substance Theory of Mind and Theological Motivations in Descartes

6. Experiential Unity and Transcendental Subjectivity in Kant

7. Spirit as Ground and the Dialectical Method in Hegel

8. Marx versus Descartes, Kant, and Hegel

9. Lawrence’s Conception of the Unconscious

10. Lawrence and the Psychoanalytic Tradition: Drive Theories and Individuation

11. Familial Relations, according to Lawrence

12. The Individual and Society, according to Lawrence

Conclusion

Chapter Two

The Metaphysics of Classic American Literature

Introduction: Language, Literature, and Lawrence

1. Classic American Literature and American Identity

2. Changing Identity by Changing the Blood

3. New Criticism and Reader Response: The Same Old Problem

4. Classic American Literature: Conditions Material and Ideal, Body and Mind

5. Spinoza and Lawrence: Parallelism and Classic American Literature

6. Individuals, Community, and Sympathy: Lawrence and Spinoza

7. Sympathy and Multitude: Anti-Democracy and Fascism

Conclusion

Chapter Three

Reading Anti-Oedipus from behind with Lawrence

Introduction: From a Critique of Psychoanalysis…

1. A Note on Metaphysics: The Organic Model

2. The Specificity of Schizophrenic Experience

3. A Materialist Conception of the Unconscious

4. Syntheses of the Unconscious

5. Connective Synthesis

6. Disjunctive Synthesis

7. Conjunctive Synthesis

8. Social Machines

9. Primitive Territorial Machine

10. Barbarian Despotic Machine

11. Civilized Capitalist Machine

Conclusion

Chapter Four

Anglo-American Literature as a Philosophical Concept

Introduction: …to the Superiority of Anglo-American Literature

1. The Line of Flight: Exiting versus Leaving

2. Anglo-American Literature: Individuals and Community

3. Tricksters versus Traitors: Imitation versus Becoming

4. Hume and the Exteriority of Relations

5. Spinoza, Parallelism, and Affects

6. Bodies, Events, and the Stoics

7. Assemblages and the Political

Conclusion

Chapter Five

The Political Significance of Opinion, Philosophy, and Art

Introduction: Opinion as a Problem

1. Elements of Opinion

2. Development of Opinion in Relation to Chaos: Denial

3. Political Significance of Opinion: Creating Consensus

4. Elements of Philosophy and Art

5. Relation of Philosophy and Art to Chaos: Uneasy Alliance

6. Political Significance of Philosophy and Art: Inventing a People, Making Brains

Conclusion

Chapter Six

Creating a People to Come

Introduction: Liberalism and its Failures

1. Inclusive Particularism: THe Political Significance of Philosophy and Art

2. D.H. Lawrence, Christianity, and Fundamentalism

3. The Meaning(s) of Revelation

4. Christianity: Aristocratic and Popular

5. Selves: Individual and Collective

6. People and Power

7. T.E. Lawrence, Arabs, and Exclusivism

8. The Creation of Shame as an Affect

9. The Political Significance of Literature

10. Becoming (with but not like) Arab

11. Walt Whitman, America, and Nationalism

12. The Specificity of American Experience

13. An Alliance with Nature as Fragmented Reality

14. The Creation of Relations as Camaraderie

Conclusion

Conclusion

Political Anthropology, Liberalism, and Deleuze

Bibliography

Index