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.
Gilles Deleuze - Frida Beckman
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