Desert Islands

and Other Texts, 1953–1974

Gilles Deleuze, David Lapoujade (Professor, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Mike Taormina

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Massachusetts Inst of Tec
01 October 2003

Philosophy; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -

Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents

A fascinating anthology of texts and interviews written over 20 years by renowned French philosopher Gilles Deleuze.""One day, perhaps, this century will be Deleuzian,"" Michel Foucault once wrote. This book anthologizes 40 texts and interviews written over 20 years by renowned French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, who died in 1995. The early texts, from 1953-1966 (on Rousseau, Kafka, Jarry, etc.), belong to literary criticism and announce Deleuze's last book, Critique and Clinic (1993). But philosophy clearly predominates in the rest of the book, with sharp appraisals of the thinkers he always felt indebted to- Spinoza, Bergson. More surprising is his acknowledgement of Jean-Paul Sartre as his master. ""The new themes, a certain new style, a new aggressive and polemical way of raising questions,"" he wrote, ""come from Sartre."" But the figure of Nietzsche remains by far the most seminal, and the presence throughout of his friends and close collaborators, Felix Guattari and Michel Foucault. The book stops shortly after the publication of Anti-Oedipus, and presents a kind of genealogy of Deleuze's thought as well as his attempt to leave philosophy and connect it to the outside-but, he cautions, as a philosopher.

By: Gilles Deleuze
Edited by: David Lapoujade (Professor Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Translated by: Mike Taormina
Imprint: Massachusetts Inst of Tec
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781584350187
ISBN 10: 1584350180
Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
Pages: 326
Publication Date: 01 October 2003
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII, Vincennes/Saint Denis. He published 25 books, including five in collaboration with Felix Guattari.