[csaa-forum] Encountering the Author: Paul Patton, Deleuzian Concepts

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Encountering the Author: Paul Patton, Deleuzian Concepts

Paul Patton, Deleuzian Concepts (Stanford University Press, 2010).

Participants:
Paul Muldoon (Monash)
Simon Duffy (University of Sydney)
Anthony Uhlmann (University of Western Sydney)
Sabrina Achilles (University of Western Sydney)

Respondent:
Paul Patton (University of New South Wales)

Date: Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Time: 1.30 to 4.30, followed by nibbles and drinks
Place: University of Western Sydney, Bankstown Campus
2 Bullecourt Avenue, Milperra
Building 3, Room G.55
Patton's Deleuzian Concepts is a series of essays that provide important interpretations and analyse 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 philosophy. Patton discusses Deleuze's notion of philosophy as the creation of concepts and shows how this may be helpful in understanding the nature of political concepts such as rights, justice, and democracy. Rather than merely commenting on or explaining Deleuze's thought, Patton offers a series of attempts to think with Deleuzian concepts in relation to other philosophers and other problems.
The series "Encountering the Author" is organized by The Philosophy Research Initiative @ UWS. This series presents papers on a recently published book on philosophy. The author is invited to be present in order to respond. The series aims to draw attention to high quality scholarship and to provoke discussions and the exchange of ideas. For more information about this series, please visit http://www.uws.edu.au/philosophy/philosophy@uws/events/encountering_the_author

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