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December 2003
6 x 9, 326 pp.
$19.95/£14.95 (PAPER)
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ISBN-10:
1-58435-018-0
ISBN-13:
978-1-58435-018-7

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Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
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From Semiotext(e):
Desert Islands and Other Texts (1953-1974)
Gilles Deleuze
Translated by Mike Taormina


Introduction7
Desert Islands9
Jean Hyppolite's Logic and Existence15
Instincts and Institutions19
Bergson, 1859-194122
Bergson's Conception of Difference32
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Precursor of Kafka, Céline, and Ponge52
The Idea of Genesis in Kant's Esthetics56
Raymond Roussel, or the Abhorrent Vacuum72
How Jarry's Pataphysics Opened the Way for Phenomenology74
"He Was My Teacher"77
The Philosophy of Crime Novels81
On Gilbert Simondon86
Humans: A Dubious Existence90
The Method of Dramatization94
Conclusions on the Will to Power and the Eternal Return117
Nietzsche's Burst of Laughter128
Mysticism and Masochism131
On Nietzsche and the Image of Thought135
Gilles Deleuze Talks Philosophy143
Gueroult's General Method for Spinoza146
The Fissure of Anaxagoras and the Local Fires of Heraclitus156
Hume162
How Do We Recognize Structuralism?170
Three Group-Related Problems193
"What Our Prisoners Want from Us..."204
Intellectuals and Power206
Remarks (on Jean-Francois Lyotard)214
Deleuze and Guattari Fight Back...216
Hélène Cixous, or Writing in Strobe230
Capitalism and Schizophrenia232
Your Special "Desiring-Machines": What Are They?242
H. M.'s Letters244
Hot and Cool247
Nomadic Thought252
On Capitalism and Desire262
Five Propositions on Psychoanalysis274
Faces and Surfaces281
Preface to Hocquenghem's L'Après-Mai des faunes284
A Planter's Art289
Notes292
List of Translators313
Index314
 
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