Burrell, Liam
(2021)
Temporality, Subjectivity, Capitalism:
The Kantian Grounds for Deleuze’s Theory of the Subject.
PhD thesis, University of Liverpool.
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Abstract
This thesis traces the theme of subjectivity across the work of Gilles Deleuze, using the theory of Kantian temporality as a grounding idea through which to link together the potentially-disparate periods of Deleuze's work. Derived from Kant's three syntheses of the imagination in the Critique of Pure Reason, in Difference and Repetition, Deleuze proposes a genetic theory of time as a foundation on which to build a theory of the subject. I argue that this Kantian idea is evident also in Deleuze and Guattari's description of both the genesis of the subject in Anti-Oedipus as well as their theory of the state in A Thousand Plateaus, which I read as constituting a problem ultimately given the name 'control'. I read Deleuze's The Fold and Cinema 2 in light of his theory of control societies, as well as a reaction to the work of Foucault as both a contemporary but also somewhat of a rival working in the post-Kantian tradition. In these latter works, I see Deleuze attempting to construct a solution for the problems generated in the Guattari collaborations and through encounters with Foucault, where Deleuze returns to concerns around the subject and its emancipation from the strictures engendered by being a subject in a capitalist world.
| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of the Arts |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Apr 2022 15:01 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2023 21:06 |
| DOI: | 10.17638/03151779 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3151779 |
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