An introduction to the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze has been labelled as the "post-x" thinker: post-structuralist, post-modern, post-Spinozist, post-Nietzschean, and even post-utopian. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze explodes such categorizations and places Deleuze and Deleuzian method at the heart of contemporary thought.

Whether analyzing the work of key philosophers, of key concepts such as time, difference and subjectivity, or the nature of creation (film, painting, literature), Deleuze's concern is always the same. From under the layers of history, the problem itself in its own life, as it develops in a particular thought or activity.

The book focuses on the key processes and concepts essential to the understanding of the totality of the work, setting these within their intellectual background and context. The book will be welcomed by students across the Humanities and Social Sciences as a guide to the work of this most vital and contemporary of theorists.

Contributors include: Giorgio Agamben, Mary Bryden, Gilles Deleuze, Jean Khalfa, Claude Imbert, Alain Ménil, Bento Prado, Juliette Simont, Ronald Bogue, Jonathan Philippe