Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze is widely regarded as one of the major post-war proponents of Nietzschean thought in continental philosophy. Over a period of forty years, he presented what amounts to a philosophy of vitalism and multiplicity, bringing together concepts from thinkers as diverse as Nietzsche and Hume. In the first comprehensive English-language introduction to Deleuze, John Marks offers a lucid reading of a complex, abstract and often perplexing body of work. Marks examines Deleuze s philosophical writings as well as the political and aesthetic preoccupation which underpinned his thinking and provides a rigourous and illuminating reading of Deleuze s early studies of Hume, Nietzsche, Kant, Bergson and Spinoza, his collaborations with Felix Guattari, and the development of a distinctively Deleuzian conceptual framework. Marks focuses on the philosophical friendship that developed between Deleuze and Foucault and considers the full range of Deleuze s fascinating writings on literature, art and cinema. This is a clear and concise guide to the work of one of the twentieth century s most influential thinkers.