Deleuze and Anarchism

Explores Deleuze and Guattari’s own diverse conceptions of anarchism and expands it in the spirit of their philosophy

This collection of 13 essays addresses and explores Deleuze and Guattari’s relationship to the notion of anarchism: in the diverse ways that they conceived of and referred to it throughout their work, and also more broadly in terms of the spirit of their philosophy and in their critique of capitalism and the State.

Both Deleuze and Guattari were deeply affected by the events of May ’68 and an anarchist sensibility permeates their philosophy. However, they never explicitly sustained a discussion of anarchism in their work. Their concept of anarchism is diverse and they referred to in very different senses throughout their writings. This is the first collection to bring Deleuze and Guattari together with anarchism in a focused and sustained way.

Key Features

• The only book to focus exclusively on the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari and anarchism
• Includes an anthropological perspective, a line of enquiry pioneered by Pierre Clastres, referred to by Deleuze and Guattari and recently renewed by contemporary anthropologists such as Eduardo Vivieros de Castro and Eduardo Kohn
• Provides historical overviews alongside current anarchist applications of Deleuze and Guattari’s work

Contributors

Jesse Cohn, Purdue University Northwest, USA.

Aragorn Eloff, independent researcher and Director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies in Africa.

Elmo Feiten, independent researcher.

Chantelle Gray van Heerden, University of South Africa (UNISA), South Africa.

Christoph Hubatschke, University of Vienna, Austria.

Nathan Jun, Midwestern State University, USA.

Gregory Kalyniuk, independent researcher.

Thomas Nail, University of Denver, USA.

Paul Raekstad, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Andrew Stones, University of Warwick, UK.

Alejandro de la Torre Hernández, National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico

Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre, University of Texas, Austin.

Natascia Tose, independent researcher.

Elizabet Vasileva, Loughborough University, UK.