Deleuze's Literary Clinic by Aidan Tynan

Deleuze's Literary Clinic by Aidan Tynan

Tynan addresses Deleuze's assertion, that 'literature is an enterprise of health', and shows how a concern of health and illness was a characteristic of his philosophy as a whole, from his earliest works to his collaborations with Guattari, to his final, enigmatic statements on 'life'. He explains why alcoholism, anorexia, manic depression and schizophrenia are key concepts in Deleuze's literary theory, and shows how, with the turn to schizoanalysis, literature takes on a crucial political and ethical role in helping us to diagnose our present pathologies and articulate the possibilities of a health to come.

< -- James Williams, University of Dundee
How should we think about health after Deleuze and Guattari? What kind of symptomatology and idea of the clinical do they affirm? Why is literature at the heart of these questions? With exceptional clarity and sensitivity, Aidan Tynan gives us subtle and much needed answersHis investigation points to a new and liberating critical practice. -- James Williams, University of Dundee

Aidan Tynan Senior Lecturer in English literature at Cardiff University. He is the author of Deleuze’s Literary Clinic: Criticism and the Politics of Symptoms (Edinburgh, 2012). He had co-edited two volumes: Credo Credit Crisis: Speculations on Faith and Money (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) and Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Literature (Bloomsbury, 2015).

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ISBN 13	9781399567589
ISBN 10	1399567586
Title	Deleuze's Literary Clinic
Author	Aidan Tynan
Series	Plateaus - New Directions In Deleuze Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Edinburgh University Press
Year published	2026-08-31
Number of pages	200
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