Desert Island and Other Texts, 1953-1974

Name: Desert Island and Other Texts, 1953-1974
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ISBN: 9781584350187

ISBN-10: 1584350180

ISBN-13: 9781584350187

Edition: 2003

Authors: Gilles Deleuze, Mike Taormina, David Lapoujade

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"One day, perhaps, this century will be Deleuzian," Michel Foucault once wrote. This book anthologizes 40 texts and interviews written over 20 years by renowned French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, who died in 1995. The early texts, from 1953-1966 (on Rousseau, Kafka, Jarry, etc.), belong to literary criticism and announce Deleuze's last book, Critique and Clinic(1993). But philosophy clearly predominates in the rest of the book, with sharp appraisals of the thinkers he always felt indebted to: Spinoza, Bergson. More surprising is his acknowledgement of Jean-Paul Sartre as his master. "The new themes, a certain new style, a new aggressive and polemical way of raising questions," he wrote,…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Semiotexte/Smart Art
Publication date: 1/9/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Gilles Deleuze was professor of philosophy at the Universitï¿½ de Paris VIII until his retirement in 1987. His books include Nietzsche and Philosophy, Dialogues,and The Logic of Sense,all published by Columbia.



Introduction


Desert Islands


Jean Hyppolite's Logic and Existence


Instincts and Institutions


Bergson, 1859-1941


Bergson's Conception of Difference


Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Precursor of Kafka, Celine, and Ponge


The Idea of Genesis in Kant's Esthetics


Raymond Roussel, or the Abhorrent Vacuum


How Jarry's Pataphysics Opened the Way for Phenomenology


"He Was My Teacher"


The Philosophy of Crime Novels


On Gilbert Simondon


Humans: A Dubious Existence


The Method of Dramatization


Conclusions on the Will to Power and the Eternal Return


Nietzsche's Burst of Laughter


Mysticism and Masochism


On Nietzsche and the Image of Thought


Gilles Deleuze Talks Philosophy


Gueroult's General Method for Spinoza


The Fissure of Anaxagoras and the Local Fires of Heraclitus


Hume


How Do We Recognize Structuralism?


Three Group-Related Problems


"What Our Prisoners Want from Us..."


Intellectuals and Power


Remarks (on Jean-Francois Lyotard)


Deleuze and Guattari Fight Back...


Helene Cixous, or Writing in Strobe


Capitalism and Schizophrenia


Your Special "Desiring-Machines": What Are They?


H. M.'s Letters


Hot and Cool


Nomadic Thought


On Capitalism and Desire


Five Propositions on Psychoanalysis


Faces and Surfaces


Preface to Hocquenghem's L'Apres-Mai des faunes


A Planter's Art


Notes


List of Translators


Index