Description: Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was an influential and provocative twentieth-century thinker who developed and presented an alternative to the image of thought found in traditional philosophy. This volume offers an extensive survey of Deleuze's philosophy by some of his most influential interpreters. The essays give lucid accounts of the fundamental themes of his metaphysical work and its ethical and political implications. They clearly situate his thinking within the philosophical tradition, with detailed studies of his engagements with phenomenology, post-Kantianism and the sciences, and also his interventions in the arts. As well as offering new research on established areas of Deleuze scholarship, several essays address key themes that have not previously been given the attention they deserve in the English-speaking world.
Brief description: Daniel W. Smith is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Purdue University, Indiana and is the author of Essays on Deleuze (2012). He is the translator of Gilles Deleuze's Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation and Essays Critical and Clinical (with Michael A. Greco, 1998), as well as Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (2005) and Isabelle Stenger's The Invention of Modern Science (2000).
Review Quotes: 'The fifteen essays assembled in this volume are written by distinguished scholars well known for their expertise on Deleuze (including contributions by the co-editors Somers-Hall and Daniel W. Smith). They collectively provide, as Somers-Hall aptly puts it, a 'rich portrait of the range and sophistication of Deleuze's thinking ...' Eric White, The European Legacy