Description
Christian Gilliam argues that a philosophy of pure immanence is integral to the development of an alternative understanding of the political; one that re-orients our understanding of the self toward the concept of an unconscious, or micropolitical, life of desire. Through proving its philosophical context, lineage and political import, Gilliam shows that immanence is necessary understanding politics and resistance.
Highlights how the question of subjectivity and its formation is inseparable from political questions about ethics, morals, action and freedom. The first book to properly outline a lineage from Sartre to Deleuze, via Merleau-Ponty and Foucault. Challenges the subject-, identity- and State-based assumptions of liberal and (post)Marxist politics. Provides the philosophical context and development of immanence.
About the Author
Christian Gilliam is Associate Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Kent.
Book Information
ISBN 9781474417884
Author Christian Gilliam
Format Hardback
Page Count 216
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Highlights how the question of subjectivity and its formation is inseparable from political questions about ethics, morals, action and freedom. The first book to properly outline a lineage from Sartre to Deleuze, via Merleau-Ponty and Foucault. Challenges the subject-, identity- and State-based assumptions of liberal and (post)Marxist politics. Provides the philosophical context and development of immanence.
About the Author
Christian Gilliam is Associate Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Kent.
Book Information
ISBN 9781474417884
Author Christian Gilliam
Format Hardback
Page Count 216
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
