Freedom and the Politics of Desire: Aporias, Paradoxes, and Excesses

Political Theory

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 399-412

  Pearson, Keith Ansell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84998166017     PISSN: 00905917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0090591798026003008     Document Type: Review

References (4)

1. For insight into Foucault's passion for ethics and his ethics of passion, see the groundbreaking essay by David Boothroyd, “Foucault's Alimentary Philosophy: Care of the Self and Responsibility for the Other,” Man and World 29 (1996): 361–86.
2. G. Deleuze, The Logic of Sense, trans. M. Lester with C. Stivale (London: Columbia University Press, 1993).
3. Deleuze's study of Foucault is particularly good at unfolding and enfolding the theme of “outside” in his work. See G. Deleuze, Foucault, trans. S. Hand (London: Athlone, 1988).
4. This may not be true of work in political theory being done down under in Australia. Paul Patton's awaited Deleuze and the Political will be published by Routledge in their “Thinking the Political” series in 1998. For a feminist application of Deleuze's ideas to the social and political, see Moira Gatens's excellent collection, Imagining Bodies: Ethics, Power, and Corporeality (New York: Routledge, 1996).