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Guattari Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts: 0
Author(s): Paul Elliott (Author)
- Publisher: I.B. Tauris
- Publication Date: 22 May 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 168 pages
- ISBN-10: 178076233X
- ISBN-13: 9781780762333
Book Description
Guattari Reframed presents a timely and urgent rehabilitation of one of the twentieth century’s most engaged and engaging cultural philosophers. Best known as an activist and practising psychiatrist, Guattari’s work is increasingly understood as both eerily prescient and vital in the context of contemporary culture. Employing the language of visual culture and concrete examples drawn from it, this book introduces and reassesses the major concepts developed throughout Guattari’s writings and his call to transform the deadening homogeneity of contemporary existence into the ‘universe of creative enchantments’. Paul Elliott asserts the significance of Guattari as a revolutionary philosopher and cultural theorist, and invites the reader to transform both their understanding of his work and their lives through his ideas.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Elliott’s book is well researched, well argued, and lucid – in short it is a welcome and long-awaited breath of fresh air into the world of Guattari commentary.’ —Jonathan Fardy, Foucault Studies
About the Author
Paul Elliott is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Worcester and the author of Hitchcock and the Cinema of Sensations.
