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An American Body/Politic - 9781584659334

Un libro in lingua di Bernd Herzogenrath edito da Univ Pr of New England, 2010

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Bernd Herzogenrath's An American Body/Politic is a study of the intersection between the material, biological body and body as political and cultural metaphor in American politics, religion, literature, and popular culture. Deeply influenced by the thought of Gilles Deleuze, Herzogenrath's approach to American culture encompasses endless possibilities and potentials, eschewing the machanic and structural.

"How interinvolved are bodies and politics? What human sensitivities enable us to probe such imbrications? What happens if they are blocked? Bernd Herzogenrath explores these issues as he brings Gilles Deleuze to bear to probe the pretexts and contexts of work by Americans such as Cotton Mather, Walt Whitman, and Henry Adams. An exciting, creative and indispensable book!"---William E. Connolly, aurthor of A World of Becoming

"Bernd Herzogenrath proposes a profound yet novel idea: perhaps Deleuze and Guattari may help to provide a new direction in American Studies, one that orients it away from questions of language and representation and to questions of creation, force and change. This book is a breath of fresh air! It opens up new fields and methods in thinking about culture and the political."---Elizabeth Grosz, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University

"This is a wonderful book, an amazing book. It gets right to the heart of things: the intersection of the corporeal and the political, the social and the psychological in the plans and aspirations, the polemics and disease, the slavery and war, the love and hope that mark our history, literature, and politics, our very lives, individual and communal. The intelligence and scope of the argument is truly impressive. It will teach Deleuzians about America and Americanists about Deleuze. A deep, rich, wide-ranging, and important book that I highly recommend."---John Protevi, Professor, Department of French Studies, Louisiana State University

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