Invention of a People

Janae Sholtz is Professor of Philosophy, Director of General Education, and Coordinator of Women’s and Gender Studies at Alvernia University, PA. She is a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg and an Extraordinary Professor in the Centre for Identity and Diversity at North-West University, South Africa. She is the author of The Invention of a People, Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political (Edinburgh UP 2015), co-editor of Deleuze and Cosmology: Between Art, Philosophy and the Sciences (Edinburgh UP 2026), co-editor of French and Italian Stoicisms: From Sartre to Agamben (Bloomsbury UP 2020) and co-editor of Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Feminism (Edinburgh Press 2019). She is currently working on a project on love, death and the fragility of relations.

• Introduction: The People Are MissingInspirationsCommunities and PeoplesDisplacementsPart I: Divergence, the Point of Nietzsche1: Heidegger’s NietzscheNietzsche, Metaphysician of the SensuousRevaluating Art on Nietzsche’s BodyTemporalizing the Moment, Eternal RecurrenceD. Transforming Epochs of Thought and Types of Man2: Deleuze’s NietzscheNietzsche, Sage of the SimulacrumUnveiling ForceDoubling Moment of Affirmation, Eternal ReturnTransforming Sensibility Beyond/Over ManPart II: (Un)Thinking, What Must Be Thought3: Heidegger on Art and OntologyFrom Ruins Another BeginningEvent, Art as the Saving PowerPoets, Thinking and Language, Klee Plateau: The (Deferred) Possibility of (Art’s) Other Beginning4: Deleuze on Art and Ontology, Axelos Plateau: From Earth to the CosmicFrom Multiplicity, Unfolding EventsCapture, Art as Abstract MachineAffect, Becoming, and Indirect DiscoursePart III: (Un)Earthing, a People to Come5: Heidegger and the PoliticalHölderlin’s Heimat and Origin’s EarthWandering ReturnReflections of Geist and Volk, Rimbaud Plateau: Car il arrive à l’inconnu?6: Deleuze and the Political, Fridge Plateau: Being True to the Earth, or Cosmic ArtisantryA Model-less Model: Missing, Minor, CosmicNomadic WanderingReflections on Ethos and InventionConcluding EventFluxus Plateau: Ontology to Fluxology

This is a groundbreaking study of remarkable lucidity and depth that offers an insightful comparison of two of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. In fact it is much more than a comparison. One who reads this book is rewarded with an extraordinarily insightful, independent account of both Heidegger and Deleuze and this is what makes the comparisons so cogent and effective. Sholtz also effectively shows the indissoluble connection between aesthetics and politics in both of these authors and argues persuasively that the future of politics will follow the path Heidegger and Deleuze have opened.