Infinite Eros: Deleuze, Guattari and Feminist Couplings: Deleuze & Guattari Studies Volume 12, Issue 4 - Paperback

by Janae Sholtz (Editor), Cheri Lynne Carr (Editor)

Seeks to combine feminist voices with Deleuze and Guattari's work

Feminism and Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy share a commitment to reinvention and infinite variation, to follow the paths of individual vicissitudes and the sufferings and joys of the worlds in which we live, and to courageously imagine better futures. This volume seeks to open spaces for the intermingling of feminist voices with Deleuze and Guattari's work, endorsing the transformational potential of such encounters.

Key Features

• Evokes the multiplicity of desire and the reformulated concept of love that informs Deleuze and Guattari's understanding of relationality
• Creates new theoretical couplings between feminism and Deleuze and Guattari Studies
• Each contributor to this volume illuminates a new potential for aligning Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy with the desires and needs of a feminist future

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Seeks to combine feminist voices with Deleuze and Guattari's work Feminism and Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy share a commitment to reinvention and infinite variation, to follow the paths of individual vicissitudes and the sufferings and joys of the worlds in which we live, and to courageously imagine better futures. This volume seeks to open spaces for the intermingling of feminist voices with Deleuze and Guattari's work, endorsing the transformational potential of such encounters. Key Features - Evokes the multiplicity of desire and the reformulated concept of love that informs Deleuze and Guattari's understanding of relationality - Creates new theoretical couplings between feminism and Deleuze and Guattari Studies - Each contributor to this volume illuminates a new potential for aligning Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy with the desires and needs of a feminist future Janae Sholtz is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Alvernia University. She researches primarily in 20th-century and contemporary continental philosophy. Her current research is focused on the work of Deleuze and Guattari and their interlocutors, and includes subjects of dramatisation, the nature of the event, transgression, immanence, powers of affect and the conjunction of the aesthetic and the political. Cheri Lynne Carr is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at CUNY's LaGuardia Community College. A graduate of the University of Memphis, Dr. Carr researches primarily in Ethics, Feminism, Philosophy for Children, Existentialism & Post-Structuralism, and Kant and the German Enlightenment. Her current research is focused on the work of Deleuze and Guattari and includes subjects of ethics, critique, sublimity, encounter, and the pedagogical and feminist lines of flight opened by schizoanalysis. Cover image: Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-3971-8 Barcode

Author Biography

Janae Sholtz is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Alvernia University. She has published articles within PhiloSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism. She has contributed chapters to The Continuum Companion to Heidegger edited by François Raffoul and Eric S. Nelson (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Between Deleuze and Foucault edited by Daniel W. Smith, Thomas Nail and Nicolae Morar (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming). Dr. Sholtz researches primarily in 20th-century and contemporary continental philosophy. Her current research is focused on the work of Deleuze and Guattari and their interlocutors, and includes subjects of dramatisation, the nature of the event, transgression, immanence, powers of affect and the conjunction of the aesthetic and the political.

Cheri Lynne Carr is Associate Professor of Philosophy at CUNY's LaGuardia Community College. A graduate of the University of Memphis, Dr. Carr researches primarily in Ethics, Feminism, Philosophy for Children, Existentialism & Post-Structuralism, and Kant and the German Enlightenment. Her current research is focused on the work of Deleuze and Guattari and includes subjects of ethics, critique, sublimity, encounter, and the pedagogical and feminist lines of flight opened by schizoanalysis.