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"Criticism and Clinic" Author: [France] Gilles Deleuze Nanjing University Press
"Criticism and Clinic" Author: [France] Gilles Deleuze Nanjing University Press
Description
Publisher: Nanjing University Press Producer: Nanjing University Press·Watcher Original title: Critique et clinique
Translator: Liu Yunhong/Cao Danhong Publication Year: 2022-6
Introduction · · · · · ·
This is the last book published by the famous French philosopher Gilles Deleuze during his lifetime, and also his only work that mainly discusses literature. The book contains 17 articles that were published or unpublished at the time. These articles revolve around the central topic of "writing", and take the works of many writers and philosophers such as Lewis Carroll, Beckett, Melville, Lawrence, and Spinoza as examples to discuss how writing can:
- How a new language is created in a language, causing the entire language activity to tilt toward its limit or outside itself;
--How the possibility of psychosis and the reality of delirium intervene in this process;.
—How the externality of speech is constituted by non-linguistic sights and sounds, which are made possible only by speech itself.
—Why through words, the writer becomes a coloring expert, a musician from the moment he starts writing.
About the Author
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) is a famous French postmodernist philosopher, known for creating many insightful new philosophical concepts and making unique contributions to metaphysics and philosophy of art. Together with Félix Guattari, they created the concept of deterritorialization and made a comprehensive critique of psychoanalysis and capitalism. His major academic works include Différence et répétition (1968), Logique du sens (1969), and L'Anti-Œdipe (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), co-authored with Guattari, which have important influences in many fields such as philosophy, literature, film and painting.
About the Translator
Liu Yunhong is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Nanjing University, and a translator. She has translated famous French literature and social science works such as My Best Memories, Nanon, The Little Prince, The Intellectuals and the Passion of France, The Cursed Part (co-translation), and Milan Kundera: A Writer's Life (co-translation).
Cao Danhong is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Nanjing University. She has translated famous French literature and social science works such as The History of Wandering, Ode to Everyday Life: On Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century, Plato's Republic, Mallarmé: The Politics of the Siren, Impossibility, and Another Language in Voices (co-translated).