Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy of History [Hardcover]

Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy of History constructs, problematizes and defends a Deleuzian philosophy of history. Drawing on Deleuze's philosophy of time, it identifies key ideas and suggestions related to the philosophy of history from Deleuze and Guattari's major writings - including the seminal contemporary texts Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaux, Difference and Repetiton and The Logic of Sense.

The book covers the following themes: the role of dates in historical chronology; historical causality; historical origins; the character of historical events; and the diagnosis of such actual historical events as the rise of capitalism in Europe. This text is a groundbreaking, valuable and original contribution to the scholarship on Deleuze and Guattari, and contemporary Continental philosophy as a whole.

1. Introduction: The Joan of Arc Effect and the Philosophy of History \ 2. Living in the contracted presentthe first synthesis of time \ 3. The virtual co-existence of the pastthe second synthesis of time \ 4. Navigating the dark precursorsthe third synthesis of the time5. Dates and destiny: the problem of historical chronology \ 6. Quasi-causes and becoming-causal \ 7. Why this now? The problem of actual historical events: The theory of beginnings \ 8. Why this now? Diagnosis of the now \ 9. Why this now? Co-existing levels of temporality \ Bibliography \ Index