Secrets of Becoming : : Negotiating Whitehead, Deleuze, and Butler / / ed. by Roland Faber, Andrea M. Stephenson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Bell, Jeff,; Faber, Roland,; Gudmarsdottir, Sigridur,; Halewood, Michael,; Higgins, Luke B.,; Keller, Catherine,; Palin, Isabella,; Robinson, Keith,; Shaviro, Steven,; Stephenson, Andrea M.,; Van Wyk, Alan R.,
• HerausgeberIn: Faber, Roland,; Stephenson, Andrea M.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Secrets of Becoming brings into conversation modes of thought traditionally held apart: Whitehead’s philosophy of the event, Deleuze’s philosophy of multiplicity, and Judith Butler’s philosophy of gender difference. Why should one try to connect these strains of thinking? What might make the work of these thinkers negotiable with one another? This volume finds that bridge in an emphasis on “becoming” that secretly defines the philosophies of Whitehead, Deleuze, and Butler. Its three sections investigate their surprising confluence in a “philosophy of becoming” in relation to the question of the event, bodies and societies, and immanence and divinity. A substantial Introduction gives an extended comparison of the three thinkers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Introduction: Negotiating Becoming -- Part One. Negotiating events and multiplicities -- 1. Whitehead, Post-Structuralism, and Realism -- 2. Nomad Thought: Deleuze, Whitehead, and the Adventure of Thinking -- 3. Transcendental Empiricism in Deleuze and Whitehead -- 4. Can We Be Wolves? Intersections between Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition and Butler’s Performativity -- Part Two. Negotiating bodies and societies -- 5. Butler and Whitehead on the (Social) Body -- 6. Conflict -- 7. Becoming through Multiplicity: Staying in the Middle of Whitehead’s and Deleuze-Guattari’s Philosophies of Life -- Part Three. Negotiating immanence and divinity -- 8. Surrationality and Chaosmos: For a More Deleuzian Whitehead (with a Butlerian Intervention) -- 9. Divine Possibilities: Becoming an Order without Law -- 10. ‘‘God Is a Lobster’’: Whitehead’s Receptacle Meets the Deleuzian Sieve -- 11. Uninteresting Truth? Tedium and Event in Postmodernity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors