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This page intentionally left blank GillesDeleuze AnIntroduction This book offers a readable and compelling introduction to the work of one of the twentieth century’s most important and elusive thinkers. Other bookshave triedtoexplainDeleuze ingeneral terms. ToddMay organizes his book around a central question at the heart of Deleuze’s philosophy:howmightonelive?Theauthorthengoesontoexplainhow Deleuze offers a view of the cosmos as a living thing that provides ways ofconductingourlivesthatwemaynothavedreamedof.Throughthis approachthefullrangeofDeleuze’sphilosophyiscovered. Offeringalucidaccountofahighlytechnicalphilosophy,ToddMay’s introduction will be widely read among those in philosophy, political science,culturalstudies,andFrenchstudies. ToddMayisProfessorofPhilosophyintheDepartmentofPhilosophyand ReligionatClemsonUniversityinSouthCarolina. Gilles Deleuze An Introduction TODD MAY ClemsonUniversity Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge , UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521843096 © Todd May 2005 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format - ---- eBook (NetLibrary) - --- eBook (NetLibrary) - ---- hardback - --- hardback - ---- paperback - --- paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of s for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. ForConstantinBoundas ingratitudeforhispatienceandgenerosity Contents Acknowledgments pageix 1 HowMightOneLive? 1 2 Spinoza,Bergson,Nietzsche:TheHolyTrinity 26 3 Thought,Science,andLanguage 72 4 ThePoliticsofDifference 114 5 Lives 154 FurtherReading 173 References 177 Index 181 vii
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