Gilles Deleuze

A General Introduction

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by Todd May

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published March 2005, 200 pages, paper

ISBN 0521603846

This book offers a readable and compelling introduction to the work of one of the twentieth century's most important and elusive thinkers. Other books have tried to explain Deleuze in general terms. Todd May organizes his book around a central question at the heart of Deleuze's philosophy: how might we live? The author then goes on to explain how Deleuze offers a view of the cosmos as a living thing that provides ways of conducting our lives that we may not have dreamed of. Through this approach the full range of Deleuze's philosophy is covered. Offering a lucid account of a highly technical philosophy, Todd May's introduction will be widely read amongst those in philosophy, political science, cultural studies and French studies.

Contents

1. How might one live?; 2. The holy trinity: Spinoza, Bergson, Nietzsche; 3. Thought, science, and language; 4. The politics of difference; 5. Lives.