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Definition: Deleuze, Gilles from Chambers Biographical Dictionary

1925-95

French philosopher and critic

Born in Paris, he studied at the Sorbonne, and taught philosophy at the University of Vincennes (1969-87) and elsewhere. His work is wide-ranging, encompassing philosophy, literary and art criticism, and writings on the cinema and contemporary culture, and often expresses the importance of a "horizontal" or non-hierarchical mode of thought. His early works include The Logic of Sense (1969), and he wrote several collaborations with the philosopher Félix Guattari (1930-92), including Anti-Oedipus (1972), a critique of psychoanalysis, and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), an investigation into the multifariousness of modern culture. He committed suicide aged 70.

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Deleuze, Gilles

From The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory
The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-95) is best known for the two volumes Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1977[1972]) and A Thousand Plateaus (1987[1980]), co-authored with Félix Guattari, and considered by many to be central post-1968 texts. However, Deleuze's philosophical work had started already in the 1950s. He wrote numerous monographs on philosophers (Nietzsche, Kant, Bergson, Spinoza, Foucault, Leibniz), all of which, at the same time as being rigorous considerations of philosophical concepts, are at an angle to received wisdom about these subjects. In addition, he produced a handful of books on artists and writers (Proust, Kafka, Sacher-Masoch, Bacon) as well as a two-volume work on cinema. All of his oeuvre shows a preoccupation with similar metaphysical ideas, adding up to an eclectic but consistent philosophy most coherently articulated in his two central philosophical theses Difference and Repetition (1994 [1968]) and The Logic of Sense (1990[1969]). …
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Gilles Deleuze, like Jacques Derrida , is a recent French philosopher and historian of philosophy whose name is associated with such movements as post-structuralism, post-modernism and deconstruction. Yet the association, in Deleuze's case, is almost wholly accidental: Deleuze has often expressed…
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From Collins Dictionary of Sociology
(1925-1995) French poststructuralist philosopher who most famously collaborated with Felix GUATTARI to critique Freud's theory of the Oedipus complex. Deleuze studied philosophy at the Sorbonne between 1944 and 1948 where he worked under Georges Canguilhem, Foucault's doctoral supervisor, and Jean…
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French philosopher of postmodernism (1925–95). Deleuze's works fall into two categories: his essays on particular philosophers and artists, including Nietzsche, Foucault, and Kafka; and his writings on concepts, such as schizoanalysis and the body without organs. His works, which were bestsellers in…
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The French philosopher Deleuze and the psychoanalyst/philosopher Guattari made their greatest impact on cultural theory together in their two-volume tome Capitalism and Schizophrenia . The strong theme of their work is multiplicity and resistance to reductionism and reification through the…
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Full text Article GILLES DELEUZE 1925–1995

From Big Ideas Simply Explained: The Philosophy Book
Gilles Deleuze was born in Paris and spent most of his life there. He saw philosophy as a creative process for constructing concepts, rather than an attempt to discover and reflect reality. Much of his work was in the history of philosophy, yet his readings did not attempt to disclose the "true" …
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From The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies
Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) was a French philosopher whose writings on philosophy included explorations into psychology, psychoanalysis, biology, literature, art, music, critiques of capitalism, and neuroscience. In his own writings and in his work with psychoanalyst and activist Felix Guattari, …
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Though the ideas already presented in this book show the broad range of philosophical thought expressed by some of history's best minds, there are many more people who have helped to shape the story of philosophy. Some of these thinkers—such as Empedocles, Plotinus, or William of Ockham—have had…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born Jan. 18, 1925, Paris, France—died Nov. 4, 1995, Paris) French antirationalist philosopher and literary critic. He began his study of philosophy at the Sorbonne in 1944 and was appointed to the faculty there in 1957; he later taught at the University of Lyons and the University of Paris VIII…
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The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-95) is best known for the two volumes Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1977[1972]) and A Thousand Plateaus (1987[1980]), co-authored with Félix Guattari, and considered by many to be central post-1968 texts. However, Deleuze's philosophical work…
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Full text Article Deleuze and Learning

From Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory
Critical philosophy ; Critical thinking ; Learning ; Poststructuralism ; Postulates Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) provides an integrated theorization of learning without having written specifically on education. He was a philosopher who worked for the majority of his life as an intellectual and…
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