CfP: Boston Area Deleuze Reading Group Conference (Oct 3-6, 2019)

Call for Papers: Third Annual Boston Area Deleuze Reading Group Conference:
Deleuze’s Spinoza

Co-Sponsored by the WPI Department of Humanities and Arts, Worcester
Polytechnic Institute and the Department of Philosophy, Stonehill College

Boston Seaport
Boston, MA

Oct 3-6, 2019
In an interview Deleuze once said that Spinoza was a philosopher whose
“critical and destructive powers are without equal” but also that these
powers “spring from affirmation, from joy…from the exigency of life against
those who would mutilate and mortify it” (Deleuze, 2002). Deleuze goes on
to say that for him, this is the essence of philosophy itself.

This year’s conference takes for its main theme Deleuze’s Spinoza: What use
does Deleuze and/or Deleuze and Guattari make of Spinoza in building
his/their own philosophical outlook? What are the ways their respective
philosophies come together or come apart? How does Spinoza’s thought help
with Deleuze and Guattari’s critical project? Etc.
.
We will consider proposals exploring any aspect of Deleuze’s work, though
we are especially interested in those papers that engage with the theme of
our meeting.

Please send abstracts (of between 300 and 500 words) to
Geoff Pfeifer ([email protected]) and Ed McGushin ([email protected])

Abstracts due by May 20 2019. Decisions by June 1.

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