The animal incapable of promising on the logic of debt
Abstract
In developing this thesis of a constitutive asymmetry, Deleuze and Guattari draw on observations made by the ethnologist Jeanne Favret’s work on power structures, in which she opposes the dialectical image of state formation implicit in much of cultural evolutionist discourse (first a chaotic world of nomadic hunter-gatherers, then people learning to develop a state to mitigate the conflicts).
Fields of Study & Subjects
Anthropological Studies and Insights
Philosophy and Social Theory
Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
Publication details
- Journal / source
- EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
- Publication date
- 16 April 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Thesis