Deleuze, Gilles(1925–1995)
Gilles Deleuze, one of the most influential and prolific French philosophers of the postwar period, was born in Paris, and lived there, with a few exceptions, for the...
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In the following essay, Jameson investigates the impact of Marxism on Deleuze's philosophy.
We begin, as one so often does, without necessarily wanting to, with Hegel (heaven only knows if w...
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In the following essay, Colombat finds a parallel between Deleuze's philosophy and Malcolm Lowry's novel Under the Volcano and considers what Deleuze perceives as the aim of literature a...
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In the following essay, May assesses Deleuze's ontological claims about the concept of difference and discusses the juxtaposition of unity and difference in his work.
The final study I want ...
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In the following review, Derrida reflects on his friendship with Deleuze and offers an appreciation of his accomplishments.
So much to say, and I don't have the heart for it today. So much t...
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In the following essay, Neil traces Deleuze's philosophical development by discussing important influences on his work.
Even the history of philosophy is completely without interest if it do...
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In the following essay, Cosgrove uses Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful to explore the connection between the beautiful and masochi...
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In the following essay, Olkowski elucidates the reasons why Deleuze and Guattari's work has not garnered much commentary from feminist critics.
Cosmic Empiricism
In a text that introduced ma...
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In the following essay, Schwab proposes modifications to Deleuze's image-ontology theory and applies it to the genre of cinema.
In his two cinema books, The Movement-Image and The Time-Image...
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In the following essay, Jardine explores Deleuze and Guattari's relationship with the contemporary feminist movement as evinced in their work.
Responding to the appearance of Deleuze and Gua...
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In the following favorable review, Gordon perceives Cinema I as an “essay in the classification of filmic signs and images.”
Of all the famous French intellectuals of the last generat...
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In the following essay, Pecora analyzes Deleuze's interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy and its relation to post-structuralist thought.
We have now had roughly a quarter century of...
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In the following favorable review, Barnett lauds Deleuze and Guattari's treatment of Kafka's work and his place within modern literature.
Deleuze and Guattari's Kafka: Toward a...
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In the following review, Thiher maintains that The Time-Image “is to be highly recommended to anyone wanting to see how a very intelligent viewer tries to frame a theory of modern cinema coveri...
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In the following review, Flynn summarizes Deleuze's conceptual apparatus in The Logic of Sense.
In The Logic of Sense, originally published in France in 1969, Deleuze establishes a systemati...
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In the following favorable review of Clinique et critique, Evenson contends that the book “serves as an intriguing and varied introduction to Deleuze's ideas, providing a broad picture o...
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Deleuze, Gilles (1925–1995)
Critical Essay by Frederic Jameson
