Gilles Deleuze
French philosopher known for Difference and Repetition and collaborations with Félix Guattari.
Gilles Deleuze was a French philosopher who wrote on ontology, film theory, and fine art from the early 1950s until his death in 1995.[1] On 4 November 1995, overwhelmed by respiratory problems, Deleuze ended his life by leaping from his apartment window.[2]
Quick Facts
- Region
- Western philosophy
- Era
- 20th-century philosophy
- Birth name
- Gilles Louis René Deleuze
- Born
- 18 January 1925
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Died
- 4 November 1995
- Education
- University of Paris (BA, MA, DrE)
- Institutions
- University of Paris
- University of Lyon
- University of Paris VIII
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
During the Nazi occupation, his older brother Georges was arrested for resistance activities and died while in transit to a concentration camp.[3] Deleuze studied at the Sorbonne in 1944 and passed the agrégation in philosophy in 1948.[3][4] He conceived of philosophy as the production of concepts and characterized himself as a "pure metaphysician".[5] Born on 18 January 1925 to a middle-class family in Paris, Deleuze spent the majority of his life in that city.[6][1]
Louis, Deleuze's father, worked as an engineer, and his mother was Odette Camaüer.[6] Up until 1957, Deleuze taught at several lycées, including those in Amiens, Orléans, and Louis le Grand, after which he joined the faculty at the University of Paris.[4] An experimental school created to advance educational reform, the University of Paris VIII appointed Deleuze to its faculty in 1969.[7] After contracting tuberculosis in 1968, Deleuze had a lung removed; for the remainder of his life, he experienced progressively worse respiratory problems.[8]
What the cited sources add
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy notes that Deleuze's first book, Empiricism and Subjectivity (1953), was devoted to Hume and was already a provocation among his peers.[9] The same source states that Deleuze's 1962 work Nietzsche and Philosophy cemented his reputation in academic circles.[9] The Stanford Encyclopedia adds that Deleuze's colleague Jean-François Lyotard spoke of him as a "library of Babel" due to his extensive non-philosophical references.[9]
References
- Wikipedia, "Gilles Deleuze" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Smith, "Gilles Deleuze" (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Gilles Deleuze" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Gilles Deleuze"; "French Philosopher Gilles Deleuze Commits Suicide at 70", AP NEWS (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Gilles Deleuze" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: François Dosse, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Intersecting Lives, trans. Deborah Glassman (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), p. 89. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Gilles Deleuze" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Daniela Voss, Conditions of Thought: Deleuze and Transcendental Ideas, Edinburgh University Press, 2013, p. 76. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Smith, "Gilles Deleuze". facts only, no text reused. plato.stanford.edu
- Wikipedia, "Gilles Deleuze" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Beckman, "Gilles Deleuze: Critical Lives", Reaktion Books, 2017, p. 15 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Gilles Deleuze" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Gilles Deleuze", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Gilles Deleuze" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: François Dosse, Deleuze and Guattari: Intersecting Lives, trans D. Glassman, CUP 2010, p. 98.; François Dosse, Deleuze and Guattari: Intersecting Lives, trans D. Glassman, CUP 2010, p. 178.; Sinnerbrink, "Who was Gilles Deleuze? (part 1)", listen at ABC Radio National, 2011-03-26; Bolzinger, "Gilles Deleuze et les médecins", Association Médicale Mosellane de Perfectionnement Post Universitaire, 26 December 2003; "Gilles Deleuze et les médecins" (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- "Gilles Deleuze", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. facts only, no text reused. plato.stanford.edu
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