Why Guattari? A Liberation of Cartographies, Ecologies and Politics (Routledge Studies in Human Geography) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367729946 ISBN 13: 9780367729943

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

This book examines Félix Guattari, the French psychoanalyst, philosopher, and radical activist, renowned for an energetic style of thought that cuts across conceptual, political, and institutional spheres.

Increasingly recognised as a key figure in his own right, Guattari’s influence in contemporary social theory and the modern social sciences continues to grow. From the ecosophy of hurricanes to the micropolitics of cinema, the book draws together a series of Guattarian motifs which animate the complexity of one of the twentieth century’s greatest and most enigmatic thinkers. The book examines techniques and modes of thought that contribute to a liberation of thinking and subjectivity. Divided thematically into three parts – ‘cartographies’, ‘ecologies’, and ‘micropolitics’ – each chapter showcases the singular and pragmatic grounds by which Guattari’s signature concepts can be found to be both disruptive to traditional modes of thinking, and generative toward novel forms of ethics, politics and sociality.

This interdisciplinary compendium on Guattari’s exciting, experimental, and enigmatic thought will appeal to academics and postgraduates within Social Theory, Human Geography, and Continental Philosophy.

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About the Author

Thomas Jellis is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, and a Research Fellow at Keble College.

Joe Gerlach is Lecturer in Human Geography at the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol.

JD Dewsbury is Professor in Human Geography at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367729946
• ISBN 13: 9780367729943
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Jellis Thomas, Gerlach Joe, Dewsbury John-David