Gilles Deleuze

1925 — 1995

France 20th Century Post-structuralism

Biography

Gilles Deleuze was a philosopher who created an original ontology of difference and becoming. A critic of Platonism and classical metaphysics.

Together with Félix Guattari, he wrote 'Anti-Oedipus' and 'A Thousand Plateaus' — a critique of psychoanalysis and capitalism through the concepts of 'desiring machines' and 'rhizome.'

Deleuze developed a philosophy of cinema, analyzing the movement-image and time-image. His thought is a philosophy of creativity, affect, and immanence.

Key Ideas

Difference and repetition
Rhizome (instead of tree)
Desiring machines
Immanence
The Fold

Works

Difference and Repetition (1968)
Ontology of difference
Anti-Oedipus (1972)
Critique of psychoanalysis (with Guattari)
A Thousand Plateaus (1980)
Political philosophy (with Guattari)