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This comprehensive book provides an indispensable introduction to the most significant figures in contemporary social theory. Grounded strongly in the European tradition, the profiles include Michel Foucault, J[um]urgen Habermas, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, Zygmunt Bauman, Martin Heidegger, Frederic Jameson, Richard Rorty, Nancy Chodorow, Anthony Giddens, Stuart Hall, Luce Irigaray and Donna Haraway. In guiding students through the key figures in an accessible and authoritative fashion, the book provides detailed accounts of the development of the work of major social theorists and charts the relationship between different traditions of social, cultural and political thought.
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
Biographical Details and Theoretical Context
Deleuze and Guattari belonged to a generation of French intellectuals whose political consciousness was formed, as Guattari once said, ‘in the enthusiasm and naiveté of the Liberation’ (Deleuze and Guattari, 1972: 15). Deleuze was born in 1925. He studied philosophy in Paris at the Lycée Carnot and the Sorbonne during the Second World War. Trained in the history of philosophy by professors such as Ferdinand Alquié, Georges Canguilhem, and Jean Hippolyte, he passed the agrégation in 1949. He later taught at the University of Lyon. In 1969, at Foucault's invitation, he took up a post at the experimental University of Paris 8 at Vincennes (later St Denis), where he taught until his ...
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