This book not only introduces Deleuze's ideas, it also demonstrates the ways in which his work can provide new readings of literary texts.

Gilles Deleuze famously declared himself to be a "pure metaphysician" in an era when philosophy seemed preoccupied by the theme of overcoming metaphysics. As a consequence, perhaps, we have scarcely begun to explore the implications of the immanent metaphysics that Deleuze developed almost half a century ago. Alain Beaulieu, Edward Kazarian, and Julia Sushytska have here brough...(展开全部)

This book offers a readable and compelling introduction to the work of one of the twentieth century's most important and elusive thinkers. Other books have tried to explain Deleuze in general terms. Todd May organizes his book around a central question at the heart of Deleuze's philosophy: how might we live? The author then goes on to explain how Deleuze offers a view of the co...(展开全部)

This book offers a readable and compelling introduction to the work of one of the twentieth century's most important and elusive thinkers. Other books have tried to explain Deleuze in general terms. Todd May organizes his book around a central question at the heart of Deleuze's philosophy: how might we live? The author then goes on to explain how Deleuze offers a view of the co...(展开全部)

Description In recent years, the recognition of Gilles Deleuze as one of the major philosophers of the twentieth century has heightened attention to his brilliant and complex writings on film. What is the place of Cinema 1 and Cinema 2 in the corpus of his philosophy? How and why does Deleuze consider cinema as a singular object of philosophical attention, a specific mode of th...(展开全部)

Table of Contents Introduction Part I: Deleuze and Philosophy 1. Deleuze and the Question of Ontology, Véronique Bergen (University of Paris VIII, France) 2. The 'Future' of Deleuze: An Unfinished Project, Zsuzsa Baross (Trent University, Canada) 3. The New Harmony, Ronald Bogue (University of Georgia, USA) 4. The New Whitehead?: An Ontology of the 'Virtual' in Whitehead's Meta...(展开全部)

Présentation de l'éditeur L'un était philosophe, l'autre psychanalyste. Figures majeures de la vie intellectuelle française de la seconde moitié du Xxe, leurs vies et leur œuvre commune sont emblématiques de cette période de bouillonnement politique et intellectuel que constituèrent l'avant et l'après-mai 1968. Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) a enseigné la philosophie à l'université...(展开全部)