Christian Gilliam is an associate lecturer in political theory at the University of Kent. He has written a selection of articles on French existentialism, political subjectivity and micropolitics.

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Sartre and the Instigation of Immanence 2. Merleau-Ponty and the Fold of the Flesh3. Foucault and the Force of Power-Knowledge 4. Deleuze and the Micropolitics of Desire Conclusion: From Immanence to Micropolitics Bibliography

In his deft study, Gilliam provides a lineage of French philosophy from Sartre to Deleuze that grounds a conception of immanence increasingly employed within contemporary political theory. Beginning with the way Sartre’s philosophy moved increasingly towards a kind of ontological immanence, he shows how this thought is taken further in Merleau-Ponty’s conception of the flesh, Foucault’s micropower relations, and Deleuze’s concepts of disjunction, folding and desiring-production. In this way, Gilliam shows how immanence is necessarily cashed out in an understanding of politics as micropolitics.

Christian Gilliam is an associate lecturer in political theory at the University of Kent. He has written a selection of articles on French existentialism, political subjectivity and micropolitics.

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Sartre and the Instigation of Immanence 2. Merleau-Ponty and the Fold of the Flesh3. Foucault and the Force of Power-Knowledge 4. Deleuze and the Micropolitics of Desire Conclusion: From Immanence to Micropolitics Bibliography

In his deft study, Gilliam provides a lineage of French philosophy from Sartre to Deleuze that grounds a conception of immanence increasingly employed within contemporary political theory. Beginning with the way Sartre’s philosophy moved increasingly towards a kind of ontological immanence, he shows how this thought is taken further in Merleau-Ponty’s conception of the flesh, Foucault’s micropower relations, and Deleuze’s concepts of disjunction, folding and desiring-production. In this way, Gilliam shows how immanence is necessarily cashed out in an understanding of politics as micropolitics.

Christian Gilliam is an associate lecturer in political theory at the University of Kent. He has written a selection of articles on French existentialism, political subjectivity and micropolitics.

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Sartre and the Instigation of Immanence 2. Merleau-Ponty and the Fold of the Flesh3. Foucault and the Force of Power-Knowledge 4. Deleuze and the Micropolitics of Desire Conclusion: From Immanence to Micropolitics Bibliography

In his deft study, Gilliam provides a lineage of French philosophy from Sartre to Deleuze that grounds a conception of immanence increasingly employed within contemporary political theory. Beginning with the way Sartre’s philosophy moved increasingly towards a kind of ontological immanence, he shows how this thought is taken further in Merleau-Ponty’s conception of the flesh, Foucault’s micropower relations, and Deleuze’s concepts of disjunction, folding and desiring-production. In this way, Gilliam shows how immanence is necessarily cashed out in an understanding of politics as micropolitics.