Gilles Deleuze

Tags: Philosopher.

Gilles Deleuze (French: [ʒil dəløz]; 18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who from the early 1960s until his death wrote influentially on philosophy literature film and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980) both co-written with Félix Guattari. His metaphysical treatise Difference and Repetition (1968) is considered by many scholars to be his magnum opus.

birth date

1925-01-18

birth place

Paris, France

death date

1995-11-04

death place

Paris, France

era

20th-century philosophy

influenced

Félix Guattari, Michael Hardt, Pierre Klossowski, Peter Hallward, Michel Foucault, Antonio Negri, Brian Massumi, Manuel De Landa, Jean-Jacques_Lecercle, John_Protevi, Marko_%C5%A0tempihar

influenced by

Baruch Spinoza, David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Henri Bergson, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Lacan, Karl Marx, Marcel Proust, Sigmund Freud, Georges Canguilhem, Jean Hyppolite, Ferdinand Alquié, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Jean Wahl, Maurice de Gandillac

main interest

Aesthetics, Metaphilosophy, Metaphysics, History of philosophy

notableIdea

Schizoanalysis, Plane of immanence, Line of flight, Deterritorialization, Affect (philosophy), Body without organs, Rhizome (philosophy), Assemblage_(philosophy)

philosophicalSchool

Empiricism, Continental philosophy

region

Western philosophy