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81Activism, Philosophy and Actuality in Deleuze and FoucaultDeleuze and Guatarri Studies 4 (Suppl): 84-103. 2010.Deleuze and Foucault shared a period of political activism and both drew connections between their activism and their respective approaches to philosophy. However, despite their shared political commitments and praise of each other's work, there remained important philosophical differences between them which became more and more apparent over time. This article identifies some of the political issues over which they disagreed and shows how they relate to some of their underlying philosophical di…Read more
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47Power and Right in Nietzsche and FoucaultInternational Studies in Philosophy 36 (3): 43-61. 2004.
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13Deleuze and Pragmatism (edited book)Routledge. 2014.This collection brings together the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and the rich tradition of American pragmatist thought, taking seriously the commitment to pluralism at the heart of both. Contributors explore in novel ways Deleuze’s explicit references to pragmatism, and examine the philosophical significance of a number of points at which Deleuze’s philosophy converges with, or diverges from, the work of leading pragmatists. The papers of the first part of the volume take as their focus Deleuze’…Read more
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49Government, rights and legitimacy: Foucault and liberal political normativityEuropean Journal of Political Theory 15 (2): 223-239. 2016.One way to characterise the difference between analytic and Continental political philosophy concerns the different roles played by normative and descriptive analysis in each case. This article argues that, even though Michel Foucault’s genealogy of liberal and neoliberal governmentality and John Rawls’s political liberalism involve different articulations of normative and descriptive concerns, they are complementary rather than antithetical to one another. The argument is developed in three sta…Read more
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29Deleuze: A Critical Reader (edited book)Blackwell. 1991.Includes discussions of Deleuze's original interpretations of Spinoza, Kant, Hegel and Bergson. Other chapters discuss his work on mathematics and the relevance of his conceptual creativity for art criticism, feminist, literary, and cultural studies. Includes contributions by leading French philosophers (Nancy, Macherey, Malabou, Zourabichvili) as well as American Deleuze scholars (Bogue, Boundas, Holland, Massumi, Smith).
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27Sovereignty Conditioned and UnconditionedSubstance 43 (2): 162-173. 2014.Derrida's discussion of sovereignty in The Beast & Sovereign Vol. 1
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32Deleuzian Concepts: Philosophy, Colonization, PoliticsStanford University Press. 2010.These essays provide important interpretations and analyze critical developments of the political philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. They situate his thought in the contemporary intellectual landscape by comparing him with contemporaries such as Derrida, Rorty, and Rawls and show how elements of his philosophy may be usefully applied to key contemporary issues including colonization and decolonization, the nature of liberal democracy, and the concepts and critical utopian aspirations of political phi…Read more
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46Foucault and the Strategic Model of PowerCritical Horizons 15 (1): 14-27. 2014.Allen criticizes Foucault for having a “narrow and impoverished conception of social interaction, according to which all such interaction is strategic.” I challenge this claim, partly on the basis of comments by Foucault which explicitly acknowledge and in some cases endorse forms of non-strategic interaction, but more importantly on the basis of the significant changes in Foucault’s concept of power that he elaborated in lectures from 1978 onwards and in “The Subject and Power.” His 1975–1976 l…Read more
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Derridean beginning and Deleuzian becomiongIn Martin McQuillan & Ika Willis (eds.), The Origins of Deconstruction, Palgrave-macmillan. 2010.
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27Political legitimacyCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 18 (6): 661-668. 2015.
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34Deleuze and the Postcolonial (edited book)Edinburgh University Press. 2010.This is the first collection of essays bringing together Deleuzian Philosophy and postcolonial theory. Bignall and Patton assemble some of the world's leading figures in these fields to explore rich linkages between two previously unrelated areas of study.
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25Deleuze, Rawls et la philosophie politique utopiqueCités 40 (4): 75-86. 2009.Les philosophies politiques de Deleuze et de Rawls comportent toutes deux une dimension utopique immanente, qui offre un cadre et un prétexte utiles pour la comparaison. Les travaux des deux auteurs paraissent au premier abord articulés sur des plans profondément différents : alors que ceux du premier expriment une orientation principalement critique, ceux du second ont pour premier objectif...
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55Deleuze and DemocracyContemporary Political Theory 4 (4): 400-413. 2005.This article responds to Philippe Mengue's claim that Deleuzian political philosophy is fundamentally hostile to democracy. After outlining key elements of the attitude towards democracy in Deleuze and Guattari's work, it addresses three major arguments put forward in support of this claim. The first relies on Deleuze's rejection of transcendence and his critical remarks about human rights; the second relies on the contrast between majoritarian and minoritarian politics outlined in A Thousand Pl…Read more
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16Deleuze's Political PhilosophyIn Daniel W. Smith & Henry Somers-Hall (eds.), The Cambridge companion to Deleuze, Cambridge University Press. pp. 198. 2012.
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72Foucault, critique and rightsCritical Horizons 6 (1): 267-287. 2005.This paper outlines Foucault's genealogical conception of critique and argues that it is not inconsistent with his appeals to concepts of right so long as these are understood in terms of his historical and naturalistic approach to rights. This approach is explained by reference to Nietzsche's account of the origins of rights and duties and the example of Aboriginal rights is used to exemplify the historical character of rights understood as internal to power relations. Drawing upon the contempo…Read more
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