Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction (Hardcover)

by Todd May (Author) "It's an odd question, in some sense; a question we don't ask ourselves very often..." (more)
Key Phrases: dogmatic image, ontological past, molar lines, Gilles Deleuze, United States, Barry Commoner (more...)

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"...a well-organized and accessible account of a difficult philosopher." - De Philosophia, Stephen B. Hawkins, University of Ottawa

"The trajectory May suggests for reading and understanding Deleuze is incisive and suggestive. We can only hope that in the near future we will see more of May's work on Deleuze, including a deeper and more thorough engagement with the problems that he so rightly and elegantly identifiies." - Ella Brians, The New School for Social Research

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Other books have tried to explain Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), one of the twentieth century's most important and elusive thinkers, in general terms. However, Todd May organizes his introduction around a central question at the heart of Deleuze's philosophy: How might we live? He demonstrates how Deleuze offers a view of the cosmos as a living entity that provides ways of conducting our lives that we may not have even dreamed of.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 196 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (January 17, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 052184309X
• ISBN-13: 978-0521843096
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,937,726 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A lucid introduction to Deleuze--that might change your life, June 12, 2005

By	David Morris (Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction (Paperback)

This is a great, beautiful and timely book. It introduces Deleuze's philosophy by first of all having us think about a problem central to Deleuze's philosophy, the question "How might one live?" From this question, May unfolds Deleuze's ontology of difference and his views of life, thinking, science, language, teaching and politics. The book is compelling and highly accessible-and does something no other book on Deleuze that I know of does-precisely because it gets us to see Deleuze's point not simply through Deleuze's difficult writing and novel concepts, but through a familiar question that each one of us might live. And so May takes us into an enormous and rich field of life, from Prigogine's and Monod's science of chaos and chance, to the Palestinian intifada, to the life of John Coltrane, to life in urban America, to erotics.

Gille Deleuze: An Introduction is a book not simply for the scholar or the student, but for the one who might want to live differently, who might want to see how thinking differently about the world and life can open a different way of living. It might change your life. It might not. It should be read.