Essays Critical and Clinical - Softcover

Deleuze

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0860916146 ISBN 13: 9780860916147

Publisher: Verso, 1998

Synopsis

"Authors, if they are great, are more like doctors than patients: they are themselves astonishing diagnosticians or symptomatologists." So wrote the philosopher Gilles Deleuze, setting himself the task of demonstrating the connections between literature and medicine. The essays collected here testify to Deleuze's fundamental conviction that philosophy cannot be undertaken independently of science and art. As so often in his writing, the names of philosophers such as Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche and Heidegger appear beside those of literary figures including Melville, Whitman, D.H. Lawrence, Beckett and Artaud. With this book, Deleuze's life-long ambition to dismantle the barriers between art and its adjacent domains is brilliantly realized.

About this title

Review:

"Perhaps one day this century will be known as Deleuzian." -- Michel Foucault

About the Author:

Gilles Deleuze (1925-1992) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII and one of the foremost French thinkers of the postwar generation. His previous books include What Is Philosophy?

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0860916146
• ISBN 13: 9780860916147
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 278