This book argues that, by virtue of his original and ongoing contribution to ontology and modal philosophy (from the texts gathered in Psychanalysis and Transversality to the unpublished manuscript notes for What Is Philosophy?), Guattari is to be acknowledged a philosopher in his own right, independently from Deleuze. Furthermore, it looks back and forth beyond Anti-Oedipus and contends that Guattari’s major writings gradually supplement deterritorialization with determinability. Accordingly, it offers a new interpretation of the nuanced development of Guattari’s philosophical thought, which it proposes to define as constructivist, rather than post-structuralist. Additionally, it explores the innovative responses that Guattari’s philosophy supplies to various contemporary philosophical debates like those on accelerationism, indeterminacy, compossibility, and worlding. Finally, it examines the differences that, upon a careful cross-reading of their earliest texts (including The Anti-Oedipus Papers and Difference and Repetition), must be drawn between Guattari’s constructivism and Deleuze’s sacrificial philosophy.
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1. Guattaris Philosophy and the Being of the Possible:
From Psychoanalysis and Transversality to Schizoanalytic Cartographies.-
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2. Between Ethnography and Psychoanalysis: Guattari vis-à-vis
Clastres and Sebag.
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3. From Deterritorialization to Determinability:
Guattaris Chaosmic Ontology in Schizoanalytic Cartographies and His
Unpublished Notes for What Is Philosophy?.
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4. Guattari Beyond
Deleuze: On Being, Time, Subjectivity, and Openness.
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5. Rereading
Guattari Today: From Indeterminacy and Acceleration to Worlding, from
Antipsychiatry to Enactive Psychiatry, from Hysteria to Animism.
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6.
Conclusion: Guattaris Philosophical (Un)timeliness.
Carlos A. Segovia is a British-born Spanish philosopher working on post-nihilism and comparative ontologies. He teaches philosophy at Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus. Among his publications, Dionysus and Apollo after Nihilism: Rethinking the EarthWorld Divide (with Sofya Shaikut, 2023) and Félix Guattari and the Ancients: Theatrical Dialogues in Early Philosophy (with Gary Genosko, 2024).