Addressing the essential question of the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in Deleuze's philosophy this book provides clear indications of the practical implications of Deleuze's approach to the arts through detailed analyses of the ethical dimension of artistic activity in literature, music, and film.

Bogue examines Deleuze's "transverse way" of interrelating the ethical and the aesthetic, the transverse way being both a mode of thought and a practice of living. Among the issues examined are those of the relationship of music to literature, the political vocation of the arts, violence in popular music, the ethics and aesthetics of education, the use of music and sound in film, the role of the visual in literary invention, the function of the arts in cross cultural interactions, and the future of Deleuzian analysis as a means of forming an open, reciprocally self-constituting, transcultural global culture.

Contents: Introduction: the transverse way: du côté de chez Deleuze; Immanent ethics; Minority, territory, music; Violence in three shades of metal: death, doom and black; Search, swim and see: Deleuze's apprenticeship in signs and pedagogy of images; Tragedy, sight and sound: the birth of Godard's Prénom Carmen from the Nietzschean spirit of music; Bergsonian fabulation and the people to come; Re-viewing Deleuze's Sacher-Masoch; Apology for nomadology; Nomadism, globalism and cultural studies; Nomadology's trial by proxy; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author: Professor Ronald Bogue is Professor in the Comparative Literature Department, University of Georgia, USA.

Reviews: 'Drawing on years of insight into the works of Gilles Deleuze, Ronald Bogue provides a careful and systematic study of Deleuze’s transverse way, the myriad diagonal paths connecting seemingly incommunicable domains: Deleuze’s immanent ethics as they correspond to the themes of the “minor” in literature and music; the construction of concepts through a pedagogy of images and the efficacy of fabulation; nomadology considered both as an expression of actual nomadic practices and as a comparative poetics for understanding globalization. Through this exploration of the Deleuzian method, Bogue reveals how these transversal connections constitute so many ways of thinking, of creating, and of multiplying variations that enliven and conjoin the arts and philosophy.'
Charles J. Stivale, Wayne State University, USA

‘Deleuze's Way offers a thorough and much documented overview of Deleuzian thought and its bearings on contemporary artistic theory… Through his comprehensive study of the 'transverse way' [...] Bogue will no doubt continue to the wider dissemination of Deleuze's ideas…’ Cercles

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