Pure immanence : essays on a life / Gilles Deleuze ; with an introduction by John Rajchman ; translated by Anne Boyman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Contributor:

Rajchman, John.

Boyman, Anne.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Empiricism.

Immanence (Philosophy).

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

102 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Zone Books ; [Cambridge, Mass.] : [Distributed by the MIT Press], 2001.

Summary:

Pure Immanence collects Gilles Deleuze's essays on a complex theme at the heart of his philosophy. In his last piece of writing, included here, Deleuze gives a simple name to this problem: "a life." Newly translated and gathered in one volume for the first time, the essays in Pure Immanence capture Deleuze's persistent search throughout his philosophical work for a new and superior form of empiricism that rethinks the relation of thought to life. "I," writes Deleuze, "have always felt that I am an empiricist, that is, a pluralist."

Announced in his very first book on Hume, then pursued in his early studies of Nietzsche and Bergson and in his later "clinical" essays, the issue of an "empiricist conversion" was central to Deleuze's thinking, in particular to his aesthetics and his conception of the art of cinema. For Deleuze such a conversion, such an empiricism, such a new art and will-to-art was what was, in fact, most needed in the new regime of communication and of information-machines. The last seemingly minor question of "a life" is thus inseparable from Deleuze's striking image of philosophy not as a wisdom we already possess, but as a pure immanence of what is yet to come. Pure Immanence exposes the new and urgent problems such a philosophy confronts today, one whose most difficult task, the invention of "a life," has yet to be achieved.

Contents:

Immanence: a life

Hume

Nietzsche.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is "Second Printing 2002".

ISBN:

1890951242

1890951250

OCLC:

45195727