Rosi Braidotti (ed.) - Revisiting Normativity with Deleuze

Revisiting Normativity with Deleuze

Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy

Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy is a major monograph series from Bloomsbury. The series features first-class scholarly research monographs across the field of Continental philosophy. Each work makes a major contribution to the field of philosophical research.

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Ricoeur and Lacan , Karl Simms

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Revisiting Normativity with Deleuze

Edited by

Rosi Braidotti and Patricia Pisters

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Contents

Ronald Bogue is Distinguished Research Professor and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Deleuze and Guattari (Routledge, 1989), Deleuze on Literature (Routledge, 2003), Deleuze on Cinema (Routledge, 2003), Deleuze on Music, Painting, and the Arts (Routledge, 2003), Deleuzes Wake: Tributes and Tributaries (SUNY, 2004), Deleuzes Way: Essays in Transverse Ethics and Aesthetics (Ashgate, 2007) and Deleuzian Fabulation and the Scars of History (Edinburgh University Press, 2010). He has also published numerous essays on Deleuze in various journals and collective volumes.

Constantin V. Boundas is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Professor at the Center of Theory, Culture and Politics, and Adjunct Professor of Cultural Studies at Trent University. He is the editor of The Deleuze Reader (Columbia University Press, 1993); of The Theater of Philosophy: Critical Essays on Gilles Deleuze (Routledge, 1994) with Dorothea Olkowski and of Deleuze and Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2006). He has organized several conferences on the works of Gilles Deleuze (1996, 1999, 2004) including the first international Deleuze Studies Conference at Trent University in 1992. He translated Gilles Deleuzes The Logic of Sense (Columbia University Press, 1990), Gilles Deleuzes Empiricism and Subjectivity: An Essay in Human Nature (Columbia University Press, 1991) and, with Susan Dyrkton, Jean-Clet Martins The Philosophy of Deleuze: Variations (Edinburgh University Press, 2012).

Rosi Braidotti (B.A. Hons. Australian National University, 1978; PhD Cum Laude, Universit de Paris, Panthon-Sorbonne, 1981; Senior Fulbright Scholar, 1994; Honorary Degree Philosophiae Doctrix Honoris Causa, University of Helsinki, 2007; Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion, 2005; Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2009) is Distinguished University Professor and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University. Her books include Patterns of Dissonance (Cambridge, Polity Press, 1991); Nomadic Subjects (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994 and 2011a [second ed.]); Metamorphoses (Polity Press, 2002); Transpositions (Polity Press, 2006) La philosophie, l o on ne lattend pas (Larousse, 2009) and Nomadic Theory. The Portable Rosi Braidotti (Columbia University Press, 2011b). Since 2009 she is a board member of Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes (CHCI).

Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University. She has written books on Deleuze, literary history, gender, literary criticism and contemporary European philosophy.

Felicity Colman is at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She recently edited Film, Theory and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers (Acumen Publishing, 2009) and was co-editor of Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art, Life (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007). Felicity has published on aesthetics, gender issues and contemporary art and cinema practices, with specific reference to Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari, in journals including Angelaki: The Journal of the Theoretical Humanities , Pli: Warwick Journal of Philosophy , Women: A Cultural Review , Reconstruction and The Refractory . She has written a number of monographs, including Deleuz and Cinema (Berg, 2010) and Contemporary Film Theory (Wallflower Press, forthcoming), and Screen Affect , Robert Smithson and Screen Manifestos.