Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Deleuze and the Social: Is there a D-function?
- I Order and Organisation
- II Subjectivity and Transformation
- III Art and the Outside
- 7 Practical Deleuzism and Postmodern Space
- 8 Anti-Oedipus – Thirty Years On (Between Art and Politics)
- IV Capitalism and Resistance
- V Social Constitution and Ontology
- Notes on contributors
- Index
8 - Anti-Oedipus – Thirty Years On (Between Art and Politics)
from III - Art and the Outside
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Deleuze and the Social: Is there a D-function?
- I Order and Organisation
- II Subjectivity and Transformation
- III Art and the Outside
- 7 Practical Deleuzism and Postmodern Space
- 8 Anti-Oedipus – Thirty Years On (Between Art and Politics)
- IV Capitalism and Resistance
- V Social Constitution and Ontology
- Notes on contributors
- Index
Summary
A kind of entrance into politics took place for me in May 68 …
Gilles Deleuze, NegotiationsOne must not look for a ‘philosophy’ amid the extraordinary profusion of new notions and surprise concepts: Anti-Oedipus is not a flashy Hegel. I think that Anti-Oedipus can best be read as an ‘art’. […] Questions that are less concerned with why this or that than with how to proceed. How does one introduce desire into thought, into discourse, into action? […] Anti-Oedipus is a book of ethics …
Michel Foucault, Preface to Anti-OedipusThe title of this chapter was suggested to me some time ago by my best enemy – or my best fiend, to paraphrase Werner Herzog – who also happens to be a very good friend: Alain Badiou. The idea was to use the occasion to pursue our dispute – or chicane, to use a favourite expression of his – a dispute instigated by the publication in 1997 of Badiou's Deleuze: The Clamor of Being (1999).
Let it be noted in passing that this dispute prolonged a problematic that I had previously examined in a book-intervention entitled Of the Impossibility of Phenomenology: On Contemporary French Philosophy, published in 1995. With regard to the topic at hand, I argued that the philosophical field with a grip on our present – in other words, contemporary philosophy as a political ontology of the present – could be, and must be, thought starting from the idea of a maximal ontological tension between Deleuze and Badiou.
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- Deleuze and the Social , pp. 151 - 168Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2006