Gilles Deleuze

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Frida Beckman traces Gilles Deleuze's remarkable intellectual journey, mapping the encounters that shaped his life and work. Deleuze the person and philosopher had many faces, and in striving to explore his life the book also considers the events, moods and intensities that were generated by this multiplicity of images. While resisting the idea of 'Deleuzians', the book also reviews a post-Deleuzian legacy and the influence of this extraordinary thinker on contemporary philosophy. It follows Deleuze from the salons to which he was invited as a student through his popularity as a young teacher through the development of the rich phases of his philosophical work.

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'Beckman draws from a stunning array of primary and secondary texts, interviews, and letters to offer a skillful and faithful study.' - Charles W. Stivale, Distinguished Professor of French at Wayne State University 'Beckman skillfully weaves together a narrative that moves between Deleuze's life and what he called "a life". Along the way, many of Deleuze's most important concepts are clarified and critically analyzed in a way that will make this Critical Life both a valuable resource for scholars and an excellent introduction to his life and work.' - Alan D. Schrift, F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy, Grinnell College

Author Bio

Frida Beckman is Associate Professor at the Department of English, Stockholm University, Sweden. She is the author of Culture Control Critique: Allegories of Reading the Present (2016) and Between Desire and Pleasure: A Deleuzian Theory of Sexuality (2013) and editor of Deleuze and Sex (2011).