Explores the residual relation between Heideggers thought and Deleuzes novelty, focusing on the parallels between their emphasis on the connection of earth, art and a people-to-come.
The Invention of a People explores the residual relation between Heideggers thought and Deleuzes novelty. Contextualising the problematic of a people-to-come within a larger political and philosophical context, Janae Sholtz casts Deleuzes project as both an extension and radicalization of the Heideggerian themes of immanence, ontological difference and the transformative potential of art.
Sholtz 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.
Janae Sholtz, Professor of Philosophy at Alvernia University, is an internationally recognized feminist and Deleuzian scholar, who has published on issues of social justice and gender politics; aesthetics, affect, and desire; and ontology, cosmology, and metaphysics. She is the author of The Invention of a People, Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political (Edinburgh Press 2015) and (co)editor of Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Feminism (Bloomsbury 2019); French and Italian Stoicisms: From Sartre to Agamben, and Infinite Eros:Deleuze, Guattari, and Feminist Couplings in Deleuze and Guattari Studies Journal (2018).
