GILLES DELEUZE: Vitalism and Multiplicity (Modern European Thinkers), Marks, Joh

Gilles DeleuzeVitalism and Multiplicity\nAuthor(s): John Marks\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Pluto Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Pluto Press\nISBN-13: 9780745308746, 978-0745308746\nSynopsis\nGilles Deleuze is widely regarded as one of the major post-war proponents of Nietzschean thought in continental philosophy. Over a period of forty years, he presented what amounts to a philosophy of vitalism and multiplicity, bringing together concepts from thinkers as diverse as Nietzsche and Hume.\n\nIn the first comprehensive English-language introduction to Deleuze, John Marks offers a lucid reading of a complex, abstract and often perplexing body of work. Marks examines Deleuzes philosophical writings as well as the political and aesthetic preoccupation which underpinned his thinking and provides a rigourous and illuminating reading of Deleuzes early studies of Hume, Nietzsche, Kant, Bergson and Spinoza, his collaborations with Felix Guattari, and the development of a distinctively De.