Books by Gilles Deleuze

A provocative guide to Deleuze by Deleuze, this collection traces the intellectual journey of one of the most important French philosophers and clarifies the key critical concepts in the work of this vital figure who has had an impact on aesthetics, film theory, psychoanalysis and cultural studies.

A fascinating anthology of texts and interviews written over 20 years by renowned French philosopher Gilles Deleuze."One day, perhaps, this century will be Deleuzian," Michel Foucault once wrote. This book anthologizes 40 texts and interviews written over 20 years by renowned French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, who died in 1995. The early texts, from 1953-1966 (on Rousseau, Kafka, Jarry, etc.), belong to literary criticism and announce Deleuze's last book, Critique and Clinic (1993). But philosophy clearly predominates in the rest of the book, with sharp appraisals of the thinkers he always felt indebted to: Spinoza, Bergson. More surprising is his acknowledgement of Jean-Paul Sartre as his master. "The new themes, a certain new style, a new aggressive and polemical way of raising questions," he wrote, "come from Sartre." But the figure of Nietzsche remains by far the most seminal, and the presence throughout of his friends and close collaborators, Felix Guattari and Michel Foucault. The book stops shortly after the publication of Anti-Oedipus, and presents a kind of genealogy of Deleuze's thought as well as his attempt to leave philosophy and connect it to the outside—but, he cautions, as a philosopher.

In Kafka Deleuze and Guattari free their subject from his (mis)intrepreters. In contrast to traditional readings that see in Kafka's work a case of Oedipalized neurosis or a flight into transcendence, guilt, and subjectivity, Deleuze and Guattari make a case for Kafka as a man of joy, a promoter of radical politics who resisted at every turn submission to frozen hierarchies.

Den franske filosof Gilles Deleuze (1925-95) havde blik for mere end sin egen tænkning, det være sig Spinoza, Nietzsche, Bergson, Kafka, Foucault eller som her Proust og hans store værk På sporet af den tabte tid. Det er nemlig ikke blot litteratur af format, men et univers af tilstande og betydninger, der som en maskine skaber tegn, som læseren må tage til sig og sætte i sammenhæng for nærmere at komme ind på livet af – ja, livets mening. Den filosofi eller tilværelsestolkning, som Marcel Proust benyttede sig af og måske først rigtig fik hold på gennem sit romanværk, kommer i Proust og tegnene (1964) i spil med Gilles Deleuzes egen tænkning, ikke mindst hans sans for at generere begreber og betydninger langs såkaldte flugtlinjer, ruter i tid, sind og fortolkning. Og som sådan bliver Proust og tegnene, der står centralt i den nyere Proust-forskning, også en indføring i den deleuzianske filosofi, som nu melder sig med fornyet kraft. Her oversat og introduceret af mag.art. Søren Frank.Bogen udkom første gang på dansk i 2003 og genudgives nu i Hans Reitzels Forlags serie Klassikere.

Deleuze var en de ledende figurer inden for den filosofiske poststrukturalisme, og i samme serie som Heideggers og Agambens værker udgiver vi her et af hans absolutte hovedværker. Bogen er en undersøgelse af forholdet mellem mening og meningsløshed, eller mellem commonsense og nonsense (sund fornuft og nonsens). Deleuzes centrale filosofiske begreber ”begivenhed” og ”tilblivelse” introduceres i bogen i forbindelse med analyser af børnebogen ”Alice i eventyrland”, Senecas stoiske filosofi og Freuds psykoanalyse. Deleuzes tanker har i Danmark vundet stor udbredelse inden for arkitekturen og litteraturteorien, og Michel Foucault fremhævede præcis dette værk som et af hans vigtigste.

The Logic of Sense begins with an extended exegesis of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Considering stoicism, language, games, sexuality, schizophrenia, and literature, Deleuze determines the status of meaning and meaninglessness, and seeks the 'place' where sense and nonsense collide.

Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VII. He is a key figure in poststructuralism and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Kant's Critical Philosophy is an outstanding example of Deleuze's work and one of the best short introductions to Kant available. The book lays emphasis on Kant's own view of philosophy. Where most discussions of Kant's work concentrate on the Critique of Pure Reason and the moral philosophy, Deleuze gives a broad overview of the whole of the Critical Philosophy. The book makes an important and welcome contribution to the field of Kant studies.

At last available in paperback, this book anticipates and explains the post-structuralist turn to empiricism. Presenting a challenging reading of David Hume's philosophy, the work is invaluable for understanding the progress of Deleuze's thought.

In this analysis of one major philosopher by another, Gilles Deleuze identifies three pivotal concepts - duration, memory, and elan vital - that are found throughout Bergson's writings and shows the relevance of Bergson's work to contemporary philosophical debates.

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari redefine the relation between the state and its war machine. Far from being a part of the state, warriers (the army) are nomads who always come from the outside and keep threatening the authority of the state.In this daring essay inspired by Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari redefine the relation between the state and its war machine. Far from being a part of the state, warriers (the army) are nomads who always come from the outside and keep threatening the authority of the state. In the same vein, nomadic science keeps infiltrating royal science, undermining its axioms and principles. Nomadology is a speedy, pocket-sized treatise that refuses to be pinned down. Theorizing a dynamic relationship between sedentary power and "schizophrenic lines of flight," this volume is meant to be read in transit, smuggled into urban nightclubs, offices, and subways. Deleuze and Guattari propose a creative and resistant ethics of becoming-imperceptible, strategizing a continuous invention of weapons on the run. An anarchic bricolage of ideas uprooted from anthropology, aesthetics, history, and military strategy, Nomadology carries out Deleuze's desire to "leave philosophy, but to leave it as a philosopher."

Essays by Gilles Deleuze on the search for a new empiricism.