Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars: Experimental Pedagogy, Philosophy, and Politics Inside Deleuze's Classroom (with Charles J. Stivale)

About this episode

The episode explores the atmosphere of Deleuze's classroom and the radical pedagogical experiments of post-68 French university life.

What would it mean to experience philosophy not as a body of knowledge to be transmitted, but as a sensation to be felt? Craig is joined by Charles J. Stivale, author of Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars 1970-1987 and co-director of the Deleuze Seminars Archive at Purdue, and Dr. Bob Langan to reconstruct the atmosphere of Deleuze's legendary classroom: the overcrowded rooms, the student contestations, and the radical pedagogical experiment that post-68 French university life made possible. This...

People in this episode

Host: Craig

Guest: Charles J. Stivale

Topics covered

• Deleuze
• philosophy
• pedagogy
• politics
• French university life

Keywords

• Deleuze
• philosophy
• pedagogy
• classroom
• French university
• Charles J. Stivale
• radical education

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Deleuze Seminars Archive, Purdue

Books & works: Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars 1970-1987

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