Essays critical and clinical Relatons between science and art

This collection of essays testifies to Deleuze's fundamental conviction that philosophy cannot be undertaken independently of science and art. As so often in his writing, the names of philosophers, such as Plato, Spinozaa, Kant, Nietzsche and Heidegger, appear beside those of literary figures, including Melville, Whitman, D.H. Lawrence, Beckett and Artaud. Deleuze's long-term ambition is realized with this book: to dismantle the barriers between art and its adjacent domains.

Translated by Daniel W. Smith and Michael A. Greco
One of France's most brilliant philosophers explores the relations between science and art
"Authors, if they are great, are more like doctors than patients: they are themselves astonishing diagnosticians or symptomatologists." So wrote the philosopher Gilles Deleuze, setting himself the task of demonstrating the connections between literature and medicine.
The essays collected here testify to Deleuze's fundamental conviction that philosophy cannot be undertaken independently of science and art. As so often in his writing, the names of philosophers such as Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche and Heidegger appear beside those of literary figures including Melville, Whitman, D.H. Lawrence, Beckett and Artaud. With this book, Deleuze's life-long ambition to dismantle the barriers between art and its adjacent domains is brilliantly realized.
"Perhaps one day this century will be known as Deleuzian." - Michel Foucault
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1992) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII and one of the foremost French thinkers of the postwar generation. His previous books include What Is Philosophy?