Deleuze and Language

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction: Deleuze, Beckett, Même Combat

   • Jean-Jacques Lecercle

   Pages 1-7

3. The Problem of Language

   • Jean-Jacques Lecercle

   Pages 8-40

4. Images of Trains, Trains of Images — Dickens, Deleuze, Representation

   • Jean-Jacques Lecercle

   Pages 41-61

5. ‘Linguistics has done a lot of harm’

   • Jean-Jacques Lecercle

   Pages 62-98

6. Events, Sense and the Genesis of Language

   • Jean-Jacques Lecercle

   Pages 99-131

7. Making Sense of Literature — Joyce, cummings, Woolf

   • Jean-Jacques Lecercle

   Pages 132-153

8. Another Philosophy of Language: the New Pragmatics

   • Jean-Jacques Lecercle

   Pages 154-173

9. Another Philosophy of Language: Machines, Assemblages, Minority

   • Jean-Jacques Lecercle

   Pages 174-201

10. A Reading of Kipling’s ‘Wireless’

    • Jean-Jacques Lecercle

    Pages 202-217

11. Another Philosophy of Language: Style and Stuttering

    • Jean-Jacques Lecercle

    Pages 218-246

12. Conclusion

    • Jean-Jacques Lecercle

    Pages 247-257

13. Back Matter

    Pages 258-274

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In the field of philosophy of language, is there life beyond Chomsky? Deleuze's deep distrust for, and fascination with language provide a positive answer - nothing less than a brand new philosophy of language, where pragmatics replaces structural linguistics, and where the literary text and the concept of style have pride of place. This should be good news not only for philosophers, but for linguistics and literary critics as well.

• language
• linguistics
• philosophy of language

'Of great interest to those interested in literary theory, French philosophy, and linguistics, this useful study is without peer.' - M. Uebel, Choice

JEAN-LACQUES LECERCLE is Professor of English at the Universities of Cardiff and Nanterre where he teaches literature, linguistics and the philosophy of language. He is the author of The Violence of Language, Philosophy of Nonsense and Interpretation as Pragmatics.

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