Gilles Deleuze / Frida Beckman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beckman, Frida, author.

Series:

Critical lives (London, England)

Critical lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Philosophers--France--20th century--Biography.

Philosophers.

France.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

158 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2017.

Summary:

Gilles Deleuze, the person and philosopher, was both singular and multifaceted. Frida Beckman traces Deleuze's remarkable intellectual journey, mapping the encounters from which his life and work emerged. She considers how his life and philosophical developments resonate with historical, political and philosophical events, from the Second World War to the student uprisings in the 1960s, the opening of the experimental University of Paris VIII and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Although less of a public figure than many of his contemporaries, Deleuze's life and philosophy are bound up with his numerous friendships, collaborations and disputes with several of the period's most influential thinkers, as well as his connections with writers, artists and film scholars. Beckman considers the events, moods and intensities that were generated by this multiplicity of encounters throughout his life. The book follows Deleuze from the salons to which he was invited as a young student through his popularity as a young teacher to the development of the rich phases of his philosophical work.While resisting the idea of 'Deleuzians', the book also reviews a post-Deleuzian legacy and the influence of this extraordinary thinker on contemporary philosophy.

Contents:

1 A Child 15

2 An Apprenticeship 27

3 A Friendship 45

4 A Practice 72

5 A Life 98.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-156).

ISBN:

1780237316

9781780237312

OCLC:

987893992