Deleuze And The Grandeur Of Palestine: Song Of Earth And Resistance

Keywords

cartography; Contre-Eric Marty &; Roger-Pol Droit; Deleuze; missing people; Palestininians

Abstract

The article re-examines the Deleuzian concept of cartography and opens on the question of that race a fortiori minor called to philosophy and the constitution of an earth. Who are these people? Who are these people who, according to Deleuze, are missing? What is their name and what is their territory? The problem of minorities, “of the missing people”, analysed by Deleuze through Kafka finds a resonance and a quite particular affinity–and in this way a designation and a name–through the struggle of the Palestinian people; deterritorialized, “inferior, dominated, always becoming”. Deleuze’s pro-Palestinian engagement in no way manifests a rupture between philosophy and politics, but establishes itself as the essential correlate of a philosophically dynamic, creative and resistant reflection whose tenor has been constantly written into the realm of politics. After nearly 30 years, Deleuze’s pro-Palestinian positions are today the object of severe criticism, if not a cabal, launched by Eric Marty and Roger-Pol Droit, who aim at exhuming Deleuze’s philosophical corpus in order to extract from it a so-called “anti-Semitic complacency”.

Publication Date

10-1-2016

Publication Title

Journal for Cultural Research

Volume

20

Issue

4

Number of Pages

398-416

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2016.1168975

Socpus ID

85008640873 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85008640873

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