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Gilles Deleuze

French philosopher (1925-1995) · France · Academics · Died at 70

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A philosopher who turned metaphysics into a machine for thinking difference itself - not as negation or lack, but as the engine of reality. His books with Félix Guattari rewired how a generation read desire, power, and capitalism.

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1995Died4 November 19951988“A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.”In their wordsfrom L'Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze: G comme Gauche (“Gilles Deleuze's Alphabet Book: Left-wing Politics”), 1988-1989.

1962“One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche’s work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values.”In their wordsp. 1

“Evaluations, in essence, are… ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.”In their wordsp. 1

“Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.”In their wordsp. 7

“When Nietzsche praises egoism it is always in an aggressive or polemical way, against the virtues, against the virtue of disinterestedness (Z III “Of the three evil things”).”In their wordsp. 7

1925Born18 January 1925

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  1. A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

    1988, from L'Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze: G comme Gauche (“Gilles Deleuze's Alphabet Book: Left-wing Politics”), 1988-1989., Own words

  2. One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche’s work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values.

    1962, p. 1, Own words

  3. Evaluations, in essence, are… ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.

    1962, p. 1, Own words

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Gilles Louis René Deleuze was born 18 January 1925 in France and spent four decades writing on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. Much of his work consisted of close readings of the Stoics, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Spinoza, and Bergson - building a metaphysics that found its fullest expression in Difference and Repetition (1968), widely considered his magnum opus. In 1972 he began his collaboration with psychoanalyst Félix Guattari, producing the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), which became his most widely read works. Though he once called himself a "pure metaphysician", his influence spread across the humanities and into post-structuralism and postmodernism. He died 4 November 1995.

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France
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1925 to 1995 · aged 70

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