Molecular revolution: psychiatry and politics
Guattari,Felix
Molecular revolution: psychiatry and politics - "Middlesex,Eng." Penguin Books 1984 - 308 p.
The essays translated in this volume include principally articles that would be considered political (in a wide sense of this term) rather than philosophical, but in the tradition of Guattari and Deleuze there can be no compartmentalization of disciplines: philosophy, politics, structuralist linguistics, psychoanalysis (or rather its undoing), micro-sociology - all frontiers are violated but violated on principle.
This practice simply pushes in a more radical direction what is in fact an established tradition in French intellectual life in this century: that one should straddle in a sufficiently 'magisterial' manner at least two disciplines. Thus Georges Canguilhem combines philosophical work with the analysis of the categories of medical thought and the history of biological concepts; Jean Toussaint Desanti, who started off in philosophy, became a professional mathematician in order to pursue his sort of philosophy more effectively. The polymathy of Foucault and René Thom is already familiar to English language readers.
140551603
Political sociology.
320.5 GUA
Molecular revolution: psychiatry and politics - "Middlesex,Eng." Penguin Books 1984 - 308 p.
The essays translated in this volume include principally articles that would be considered political (in a wide sense of this term) rather than philosophical, but in the tradition of Guattari and Deleuze there can be no compartmentalization of disciplines: philosophy, politics, structuralist linguistics, psychoanalysis (or rather its undoing), micro-sociology - all frontiers are violated but violated on principle.
This practice simply pushes in a more radical direction what is in fact an established tradition in French intellectual life in this century: that one should straddle in a sufficiently 'magisterial' manner at least two disciplines. Thus Georges Canguilhem combines philosophical work with the analysis of the categories of medical thought and the history of biological concepts; Jean Toussaint Desanti, who started off in philosophy, became a professional mathematician in order to pursue his sort of philosophy more effectively. The polymathy of Foucault and René Thom is already familiar to English language readers.
140551603
Political sociology.
320.5 GUA