The Invention of a People: Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political

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by  Janae Sholtz

The Invention of a People
Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies
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Contents
Acknowledgments VI
Abbreviations
VU
Introduction: The People Are Missing 1
PART 1: DIVERGENCE, THE POINT OF NIETZSCHE
1 Heidegger' s Nietzsche 25
2 Deleuze's Nietzsche 47
PART II: (UN)THINKING, WHAT MUST BE THOUGHT
Introduction to Part II 73
3 Heidegger on Art and Ontology 83
Klee Plateau: The (Deferred) Possibility of (Arfs) Other
Beginning
4 Deleuze on Art and Ontology 125
Axelos Plateau: From Barth to the Coslnic
PART III: (UN)EARTHING A PEOPLE-TO-COME
Introduction to Part III 191
5 Heidegger and the Political 194
Rimbaud Plateau: Car il arrive à l'inconnu?
6 Deleuze and the Political 235
Fridge Plateau: Being True to the Barth, or Cosmic
Artisantry
CONCLUDING EVENT
Fluxus Plateau: Ontology to Fluxology 265
Index 283
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Illy mentors, those who have inspired me, and those
who supported my work at conferences or otherwise, Len Lawlor,
Robert Bernasconi, Mary Beth Mader, Sarah Clark Miller, Claudia
Baracchi, Dorothea Olkowski, Manfred Frank, Berta Nance,
Cynthia Marshall, Ellen Annour, Pat Shade, Miguel De Beistegui,
Ronald Bogue, Dennis Schmidt, Daniel Smith, Daniella Vallega-Neu,
Alejandro Vallega, Drew Hyland, Dale Wilkerson, Jason Wirth, John
Dra binski, and for comments, Andy Amato, Mike Ardoline, J ared
Bly, Josh Hayes, David Macauley, Magus Magnus, Anish Patel,
Louis Ruprecht, Sam Talcott.
Thanks to Alvernia University for support through Faculty
Excellence Grants and the Faculty Salon Series, and the intellectual
inspiration of Illy colleagues; Brian Fridge, the Bacon Estate, the
Higgins Esta te, Rosenthal Gallery and Geoffrey Hendricks for gra
cious permissions and artwork; Carol Macdonald for prolnoting my
project and Edinburgh Press editorial staff for facilitating its progres
sion; lan Buchanan and Claire Colebrook for accepting this project
into the series.
Thanks and love to Kyle and Julien, for the crazy and amazing
path that we have forged together; my entire family for patience and
love; my friends, especially Len Lawlor, for guidance, unwavering
encouragement, and being a kindred spirit; Cheri Carr, for keeping
Illy spark, intellectual and otherwise, spritely; Sharin Elkholy, for
incisive scrutiny and caring friendship, and Ruth Hall McFall, for
being my rock, always.
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Abbreviations
Works by Martin Heidegger
BW Basic Writings, ed. David Farrell Krell (New York:
HarperCollins, 1993)
EGT Early Greek Thinking, trans. D. Farrell Krell and F.A.
Capuzzi (New Yorle Harper & Row, 1975)
GA Gesanltausgabe (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann)
GA2 Sein und Zeit (1977)
Being and Time: A Translation of Sein und Zeit, trans. Joan
Stanlbaugh (Albany, NY: State University of New York
Press, 1997)
GA4 Erlauterungen zu Holderlins Dichtung (1981)
pp. 24-49, 'Homecoming!fo Kindred Ones', in Elucidations
of Holderlin's Poetry, trans. Keith Hoe1ler (New Yorle
Humanity Books, 2000)
pp. 51-65, 'Hülderlin and the Essence of Poetry', in
Elucidations
pp. 175-207, 'Hülderlin's Earth and Heaven', in Elucidations
GA5 Holzwege, 1935-46 (1977)
pp. 57-72, 'The Age of the World Picture', in Off the Beaten
Track, ed. and trans. Julian Young and Kenneth Haynes
(Calnbridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
GA6.1 Nietzsche, 1936-39 (1996)
pp. 1-220, Nietzsche, Vol. 1, The Will to Power as Art, trans.
David Farrell Krell (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco,
1991)
pp. 1-233, Nietzsche, Vol. II, The Eternal Recurrence
of the Same, trans. David Farrell Krell (San Francisco:
HarperSanFrancisco, 1991)
GA6.2 Nietzsche, 1939-46 (1997)
pp. 1-287, Nietzsche, Vol. 3, The Will to Power as Knowledge
and as Metaphysics, ed. David Farrell Krell (San Francisco:
HarperSanFrancisco, 1991)
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ABBREVIATIONS
pp. 1-250, Nietzsche, Vol. 4, Nihilism, ed. David Farrell
Krell (San Francisco: l-IarperSanFrancisco, 1991)
GA7 Vortrage und Aufsatze (2000)
pp. 1-35, 'The Question Concerning Technology', in The
Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays, trans.
William Lovitt (New York: Harper & Row, 1977)
GA9 Wegmarken (1976)
pp. 136-54, 'On the Essence of Truth', trans. John Sallis, in
Pathmarks, ed. William McNeill (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1998)
GAll Identitat und Differenz (2006)
Identity and Difference, trans. Joan Stambaugh (New York:
Harper & Row, 1974)
pp. 36-49, 'The Turning', in The Question Concerning
Technology, and Other Essays, trans. William Lovitt (New
York: Harper & Row, 1977)
GA38 Logik aIs Frage nach dem Wesen der Sprache (Summer
Semester 1934), (1998)
GA39 Holderlins Hymnen 'Germanien' und 'Der Rhein' (Winter
Semester 1934/5), (1980)
GA40 Einführungin die Metaphysik (Summer Semester 1935), (1983)
Introduction to Metaphysics, trans. G. Fried and R. Polt
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009)
GA45 Grundfragen der Philosophie: Ausgewahlte 'Probleme' der
'Logik' (Winter Semester 1937/8), ed. Friedrich-Wilhelm von
Herrman (1984)
GA51 Grundbegriffe (Summer Semester 1941) (1981)
Basic Writings: From Being and Time (1927) to the Task
of Thinking (1964), trans. David Farrell Krell (New York:
Harper & Row Publishers, 1977)
GA53 Holderlins Hymne 'Der Ister' (Summer Semester, 1942),
(1984)
Holderlin's Hymn 'The Ister', trans. William McNeill and
Julia Davis (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996)
GA54 Parmenides (Winter Semester 1942/3), (1982)
Parmenides, trans. Andre Schuwer and Richard Rojcewicz
(BloOlnington: Indiana University Press, 1998)
GA65 Beitrage zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis), (1989)
Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning), trans. Parvis
Emad and Kenneth Maly (Indianapolis: Indiana University
Press, 1999)
Vl11
Abbreviations
GA89 Zollikoner Seminaire: Protokolle - Gesprache - Briefe (1989)
Zollikon Sen1Ïnars. Protocols-Conversations-Letters. ed. M.
Boss, trans. R. Askay and F. Mayr (Evanston: Northwestern
University Press, 2001)
H Holzwege, 5th edn (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klosterman,
1972)
pp. 1-56, 'The Origin of the Work of Art', in Off the Beaten
Track, ed. and trans. Julian Young and Kenneth Haynes
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
pp. 91-142, 'What are Poets For?', in Poetry, Language,
Thought, trans. Albert Hofstadter (New Yorle Harper &
Row, 1971)
NI/ Nietzsche, Vols. land 2, trans. David Farrell Krell (San
NIl Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991)
NI II/ Nietzsche, Vols. 3 and 4, ed. David Farrell Krell (San
IV Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991)
OBT Off the Beaten Track, trans. Julian Young and Kenneth
Haynes (Calnbridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Of 'Of the Origin of the Work of Art (first elaboration)', trans.
Markus Zisselsberger, in Epochë 12:2 (2008)
Ofr De l'origine de l'oeuvre d'art. Premiére version (1935), ed. E.
Martineau (Paris: Authentica, 1987)
OWL On the Way to Language, trans. Peter D. Hertz (New York:
Harper & Row, 1982)
PLT Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. Albert Hofstadter (New
York: Harper & Row, 1971)
R 'Rectoral Address: The Self-Assertion of the German
University', in The Heidegger Reader, trans. G. Veith, ed. G.
Figal (Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2000), pp. 108-15
VS 'Vier Seminare' (Frankfurt alTI Main: Klostermann, 1986)
Four Seminars (Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
2003)
WHD Was Heisst Denken? (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1997
[1954])
What is Called Thinking? trans. J. Glenn Gray (New Yorlz:
Harper Perennial, 2004)
Wm Wegmarken, 2nd edn (Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann,
1967)
pp. 213-53, The Question of Being, trans. Jean T. Wilde and
William Kluback (New Haven: College and University Press,
1958)
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ABBREVIATIONS
Works by Gilles Deleuze
B Bergsonisn1, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam
(New York: Zone Books, 1988)
CI Cinén1a I: L'Image-Mouvement (Paris: Les Éditions de
Minuit, 1983)
Cinema I: The Movelnent-Image, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and
Barbara Habberjam (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 2001)
CIl Cinen1a II: The Time-Image, trans. Hugh Tomlinson
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001)
DR Différence et Répétition (Paris: Presses Universitaires de
France, 11th edn 2003 [1968])
Difference and Repetition, trans. Paul Patton (New York:
Columbia University Press, 1994)
ECC Essays Critical and Clinical, trans. Dan Smith and
Michael Greco (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
1997)
EPS Spinoza et la problème de l'expression (Paris: Les Éditions de
Minuit, 1968)
Expressionisn1 in Philosophy: Spinoza, trans. Martin Joughin
(New York: Zone Books, 1990)
F Foucault (Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1986)
Foucault, trans. Sean Hand (Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1988)
FB Francis Bacon: Logique de la sensation (Paris: Seuil, 1981)
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation, trans. Daniel Smith
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004)
ID L'île déserte et autre textes. Textes et entretiens 1953-1974
(Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 2002)
Desert Islands and Other Texts 1953-1974, trans. Michael
Taormina (New York: Serniotext(e), 2004)
LS Logique du sens (Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1969)
The Logic of Sense, trans. Mark Lester (New York: Columbia
University Press, 1990)
N Negotiations 1972-1990, trans. Martin Joughin (New Yodz:
Columbia University Press, 1995)
NP Nietzsche et la philosophie (Paris: Presses Universitaires de
France, 1994 [1962])
Nietzsche and Philosophy, trans. Hugh Tomlinson (New
York: Columbia University Press, 1983)
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