Immanence and Micropolitics : Sartre, Merleau-ponty, Foucault and Deleuze

Christian Gilliam argues that a philosophy of 'pure' immanence is integral to the development of an alternative understanding of 'the political'; one that re-orients our understanding of the self toward the concept of an unconscious, or micropolitical, life of desire.Through proving its philosophical context, lineage and political import, Gilliam shows that immanence is necessary understanding politics and resistance.