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43. - Deleuze, Gilles (1925–1995)

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

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Beth Lord
Edited by
Karolina Hübner  and
Justin Steinberg
Karolina Hübner
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Justin Steinberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Gilles Deleuze, one of the most significant French philosophers of the last century, drew profoundly on Spinoza as he challenged and reconceived the assumptions of metaphysics and epistemology. His wide-ranging oeuvre includes texts on art, literature, and cinema; works on psychoanalysis and politics co-authored with Félix Guattari; and critical commentaries on Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, Nietzsche, and Bergson. Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza (1968/1990) is a substantial study of Spinoza’s doctrines of substance and attributes, mind–body parallelism, and finite existence, while Spinoza: Practical Philosophy (1970/1988) explores the ethical and political dimensions of Spinoza’s thought. Deleuze’s interpretation of Spinoza is hugely influential, especially in continental philosophy where it has been seminal for how Spinoza’s thinking is understood and used.

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The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon , pp. 108 - 110
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Deleuze, G. (1988). Spinoza: Practical Philosophy, trans. R. Hurley. City Lights.Google Scholar
Deleuze, G. (1990). Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza, trans. M. Joughin. Zone.Google Scholar
Gatens, M. (1996). Through a Spinozist lens: Ethology, difference, power. In Patton, P. (ed.), Deleuze: A Critical Reader (pp. 162–87). Blackwell.Google Scholar
Macherey, P. (1996). The encounter with Spinoza. In Patton, P. (ed.), Deleuze: A Critical Reader (pp. 139–61). Blackwell.Google Scholar
Sauvagnargues, A., and Sévérac, P. (eds.). (2016). Spinoza-Deleuze: Lectures croisées. ENS.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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