Deleuze and Geophilosophy - (Deleuze Connections) by Mark Bonta & John Protevi (Paperback)

About the Book

This is the first book to use complexity theory to open up the 'geophilosophy' developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus, Anti-Oedipus and What is Philosophy?.

Book Synopsis

This is the first book to use complexity theory to open up the 'geophilosophy' developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus, Anti-Oedipus and What is Philosophy?.

Review Quotes

Bonta and Protevi have really done a remarkable job of making Deleuze and Guattari's challenging material more accessible for their broadening readership. The glossary is a much-needed contribution to geography as well as scholarship on Deleuze and will undoubtedly prove useful to neophyte and jedi alike.--Keith Woodward, University of Arizona "Area"

Key categories and concepts are lucidly discussed ... the book ends with an interesting and helpful appendix.-- "Progress in Human Geography"

A most valuable book of great use to students of Deleuze and Guattari.--Keith Ansell Pearson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick

Timely and indispensable.--Edward S. Casey, Leading Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York, Stony Brook

About the Author

Mark Bonta is Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences at Penn State Altoona. He is a leading proponent of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze as applied to geography pedagogy and to theories of spatial complexity.

John Protevi is Associate Professor of French Studies at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Time and Exteriority (Bucknell, 1994); and Political Physics (Athlone, 2001); the editor of The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2005); and co-author, with Mark Bonta, of Deleuze and Geophilosophy (Edinburgh, 2004). He is currently working on a book on 'political physiology' that will combine cognitive science and post-structuralism.