Gilles Deleuze : Key Concepts

One of the most radical philosophers of the twentieth century, Gilles Deleuze has become hugely influential in philosophy, cultural studies, literature, art, and architecture. Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text focuses on the intersection between Deleuzian philosophy and the arts. Deleuze combined exceptionally rigorous insight into important Western philosophers with an extraordinary sensitivity to literature, music, painting and film. He was intensely interested in the medium of thought, which is by no means limited to philosophy alone: it also takes place in science, mathematics, literature, painting and cinema, to name just some of the genres of thought to which Deleuze most often refers. His own thinking emerged almost as often in conversation with artists and literary writers as in engagement with other philosophers, and his philosophy cannot be fully grasped without an understanding of his engagement with the arts. This significant and timely collection of essays from an international team of leading Deleuze scholars brings together interpretations and commentaries from Deleuzian perspectives on subjects such as literature, painting, music and film. The book represents diverse modes of engagement with Deleuze's philosophical concepts and problems and demonstrates the central role the arts play in any understanding of his philosophical ideas Introduction: Gilles Deleuze, a life in friendship / Charles J. Stivale -- Force / Kenneth Surin -- Expression / Gregg Lambert -- Difference, repetition / Melissa McMahon -- Desire / Eugene W. Holland -- Sense, series / Judith L. Poxon, Charles J. Stivale -- Event / James Williams -- Assemblage / J. Macgregor Wise -- Micropolitics / Karen Houle -- Becoming-woman / Patty Sotirin -- The minor / Ronald Bogue -- Style, stutter / Christa Albrecht-Crane -- Logic of sensation / Jennifer Daryl Slack -- Cinema / Felicity J. Colman -- From affection to soul / Gregory J. Seigworth -- Folds and folding / Tom Conley -- Critical, clinical / Daniel Smith -- Philosophy / Gregory Flaxman. Gilles Deleuze is now regarded as one of the most radical philosophers of the twentieth century. His work is hugely influential across a range of subjects, from philosophy to literature, to art, architecture and cultural studies. ""Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts"" provides a guide to Deleuzian thought for any reader coming to his writings for the first time. This new edition is fully revised and updated and includes three new chapters on the event, psychoanalysis and philosophy Gilles Deleuze is regarded as one of the most radical philosophers of the twentieth century. His work is hugely influential across a range of subjects, from philosophy to literature, to art, architecture and cultural studies. This guide to Deleuzian thought includes chapters on the event, psychoanalysis and philosophy.