Dialogues II (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultur)

Dialogues II (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultur)

French journalist Claire Parnet's famous dialogues with Gilles Deleuze offer an intimate portrait of the philosopher's life and thought. Conversational in tone, their engaging discussions delve deeply into Deleuze's philosophical background and development, the major concepts that shaped his work, and the essence of some of his famous relationships, especially his long collaboration with the philosopher Félix Guattari. Deleuze reconsiders Spinoza, empiricism, and the stoics alongside literature, psychoanalysis, and politics. He returns to the notions of minor literature, deterritorialization, the critical and clinical, and begins a nascent study of cinema. New to this edition is Deleuze's essay "Pericles and Verdi," which reflects on politics and historical materialism in the work of the influential French philosopher François Châtelet. An enduring record of Deleuze's unique personality and profound contributions to culture and philosophy, Dialogues II is a highly personable account of the evolution of one of the greatest critics and theorists of the twentieth century. This is the best introduction to Deleuzian philosophy a dazzling exposition of Deleuze's concepts and methodologies, of how to think in new ways in order to liberate life wherever it is imprisoned. Dialogues affirms how a new type of revolution is about to become possible. -- Eric Alliez, author of Signature of the World: What is Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy? Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was professor of philosophy at the University of Paris, Vincennes-St. Denis. He wrote several seminal philosophical works, including Difference and Repetition and Proust and Signs , and, with Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus , What Is Philosophy? , and A Thousand Plateaus .Clare Parnet is a philosopher and journalist living in France.