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The Invention of a PeopleHeidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political

By Janae Sholtz

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A multi-layered reading of the intersections between two of the most influential figures in contemporary philosophy

The Invention of a People explores the residual relation between Heidegger’s thought and Deleuze’s novelty, focusing on the parallels between their emphasis on the connection of earth, art and a people-to-come.

Contextualising the problematic of a people-to-come within a larger political and philosophical context of post-war thinkers of community such as Bataille, Blanchot and Nancy, Sholtz offers a creative approach to the work of these two thinkers. Deleuze’s project is therefore cast as both an extension and radicalisation of the Heideggerian themes of immanence, ontological difference and the transformative potential of art.

Presenting interstitial readings of Paul Klee, Kostos Axelos, Arthur Rimbaud, the 1960’s art collective Fluxus and artist Brian Fridge, she invents creative encounters which act as provocations from the outside, opening new lines of flight and previously unthought terrain. Ultimately, she develops a diagrammatic image of a people-to-come that is constantly in flux and can answer the demands of the untimely future.

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This is a groundbreaking study of remarkable lucidity and depth that offers an insightful comparison of two of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. In fact it is much more than a comparison. One who reads this book is rewarded with an extraordinarily insightful, independent account of both Heidegger and Deleuze and this is what makes the comparisons so cogent and effective. Sholtz also effectively shows the indissoluble connection between aesthetics and politics in both of these authors and argues persuasively that the future of politics will follow the path Heidegger and Deleuze have opened.
Table of contents

Introduction: The People Are Missing

  1. Inspirations
  2. Communities and Peoples
  3. Displacements

Part I: Divergence, the Point of Nietzsche

1: Heidegger’s Nietzsche

  1. Nietzsche, Metaphysician of the Sensuous
  2. Revaluating Art on Nietzsche’s Body
  3. Temporalizing the Moment, Eternal RecurrenceD. Transforming Epochs of Thought and Types of Man

2: Deleuze’s Nietzsche

  1. Nietzsche, Sage of the Simulacrum
  2. Unveiling Force
  3. Doubling Moment of Affirmation, Eternal Return
  4. Transforming Sensibility Beyond/Over Man

Part II: (Un)Thinking, What Must Be Thought

3: Heidegger on Art and Ontology

  1. From Ruins Another Beginning
  2. Event, Art as the Saving Power
  3. Poets, Thinking and Language, Klee Plateau: The (Deferred) Possibility of (Art’s) Other Beginning

4: Deleuze on Art and Ontology, Axelos Plateau: From Earth to the Cosmic

  1. From Multiplicity, Unfolding Events
  2. Capture, Art as Abstract Machine
  3. Affect, Becoming, and Indirect Discourse

Part III: (Un)Earthing, a People to Come

5: Heidegger and the Political

  1. Hölderlin’s Heimat and Origin’s Earth
  2. Wandering Return
  3. Reflections of Geist and Volk, Rimbaud Plateau: Car il arrive à l’inconnu?

6: Deleuze and the Political, Fridge Plateau: Being True to the Earth, or Cosmic Artisantry

  1. A Model-less Model: Missing, Minor, Cosmic
  2. Nomadic Wandering
  3. Reflections on Ethos and Invention

Concluding Event

Fluxus Plateau: Ontology to Fluxology

About the author

Janae Sholtz

Janae Sholtz is Professor of Philosophy, Director of General Education, and Coordinator of Women’s and Gender Studies at Alvernia University, PA. She is a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg and an Extraordinary Professor in the Centre for Identity and Diversity at North-West University, South Africa. She is the author of The Invention of a People, Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political (Edinburgh UP 2015), co-editor of Deleuze and Cosmology: Between Art, Philosophy and the Sciences (Edinburgh UP 2026), co-editor of French and Italian Stoicisms: From Sartre to Agamben (Bloomsbury UP 2020) and co-editor of Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Feminism (Edinburgh Press 2019). She is currently working on a project on love, death and the fragility of relations.

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