Gilles Deleuze  

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Gilles Deleuze, (January 18, 1925 – November 4, 1995) was a French philosopher of the late 20th century. From the early 1960s until his death, Deleuze wrote many influential works on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular books were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), both co-written with Félix Guattari. His books Difference and Repetition (1968) and The Logic of Sense (1969) led Michel Foucault to declare that "one day, perhaps, this century will be called Deleuzian." (Deleuze, for his part, said Foucault's comment was "a joke meant to make people who like us laugh, and make everyone else livid." The best online introduction to his thought is L'Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze.

Bibliography

By Gilles Deleuze:

• Empirisme et subjectivité (1953). Trans. Empiricism and Subjectivity (1991).
• Nietzsche et la philosophie (1962). Trans. Nietzsche and Philosophy (1983).
• La philosophie critique de Kant (1963). Trans. Kant's Critical Philosophy (1983).
• Proust et les signes (1964, 2nd exp. ed. 1976). Trans. Proust and Signs (1973, 2nd exp. ed. 2000).
• Le Bergsonisme (1966). Trans. Bergsonism (1988).
• Présentation de Sacher-Masoch (1967). Trans. Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty (1989).
• Différence et répétition (1968). Trans. Difference and Repetition (1994).
• Spinoza et le problème de l'expression (1968). Trans. Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza (1990).
• Logique du sens (1969). Trans. The Logic of Sense (1990).
• Spinoza - Philosophie pratique (1970, 2nd ed. 1981). Trans. Spinoza: Practical Philosophy (1988).
• Dialogues (1977, 2nd exp. ed. 1996, with Claire Parnet). Trans. Dialogues (1987, 2nd exp. ed. 2002).
• Superpositions (1979).
• Francis Bacon - Logique de la sensation (1981). Trans. Francis Bacon: Logic of Sensation (2003).
• Cinéma I: L'image-mouvement (1983). Trans. Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (1986).
• Cinéma II: L'image-temps (1985). Trans. Cinema 2: The Time-Image (1989).
• Foucault (1986). Trans. Foucault (1988).
• Le pli - Leibniz et le baroque (1988). Trans. The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (1993).
• Périclès et Verdi: La philosophie de Francois Châtelet (1988).
• Pourparlers (1990). Trans. Negotiations (1995).
• Critique et clinique (1993). Trans. Essays Critical and Clinical (1997).
• Pure Immanence (2001).
• L'île déserte et autres textes (2002). Trans. Desert Islands and Other Texts 1953-1974 (2003).
• Deux régimes de fous et autres textes (2004). Trans. Two Regimes of Madness: Texts and Interviews 1975-1995 (2006).

In collaboration with Félix Guattari:

• Capitalisme et Schizophrénie 1. L'Anti-Œdipe. (1972). Trans. Anti-Oedipus (1977).
• Kafka: Pour une Littérature Mineure. (1975). Trans. Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature. (1986).
• Rhizome. (1976).
• Nomadology: The War Machine. (1986).
• Capitalisme et Schizophrénie 2. Mille Plateaux. (1980). Trans. A Thousand Plateaus (1987).
• Qu'est-ce que la philosophie? (1991). Trans. What Is Philosophy? (1996).

Most of Deleuze's courses are available, in several languages, here.

Select secondary sources:

• Descombes, Vincent (1979). Le Même et L'Autre. Minuit. Trans. Modern French Philosophy. Cambridge University Press.
• Foucault, Michel (1970). "Theatrum Philosophicum", Critique 282, pp. 885-908. Trans. in Foucault, Language, Counter-Memory, and Practice, pp. 165-198. Cornell University Press.
• Frank, Manfred (1984). Was Ist Neostrukturalismus? Suhrkamp. Trans. What Is Neostructuralism? University of Minnesota Press.
• Hardt, Michael (1993). Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy. University of Minnesota Press.
• Lecercle, Jean-Jacques (1985). Philosophy through the Looking-Glass. Open Court.
• May, Todd (2005). Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press.
• Williams, James (2003). Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: A Critical Introduction and Guide. Edinburgh University Press.

Legacy

Gilles Deleuze was influenced by Spinoza, Nietzsche, Bergson and influenced many others.

See also

• Affect (philosophy)
• Concept
• Deterritorialization
• Percept
• Rhizome
• Gilbert Simondon's theory of psychic and collective individuation
• Minority
• Schizoanalysis
• Plane of immanence
• Problem of futures contingents