Desert Islands and Other Texts
Desert Islands and Other Texts (1953-1974) (Semiotext(e) / Double Agents) Gilles Deleuze
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
ISBN: 1584350180
Edition: Paperback; 2003-12-01
Summary:
"One day, perhaps, this century will be Deleuzian," Michel Foucault
once wrote. This book anthologizes 40 texts and interviews written
over 20 years by renowned French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, who died
in 1995. The early texts, from 1953-1966 (on Rousseau, Kafka, Jarry,
etc.), belong to literary criticism and announce Deleuze's last book,
Critique and Clinic (1993). But philosophy clearly predominates in
the rest of the book, with sharp appraisals of the thinkers he always
felt indebted to: Spinoza, Bergson. More surprising is his
acknowledgement of Jean-Paul Sartre as his master. "The new themes, a
certain new style, a new aggressive and polemical way of raising
questions," he wrote, "come from Sartre." But the figure of Nietzsche
remains by far the most seminal, and the presence throughout of his
friends and close collaborators, Felix Guattari and Michel Foucault.
The book stops shortly after the publication of Anti-Oedipus, and
presents a kind of genealogy of Deleuze's thought as well as his
attempt to leave philosophy and connect it to the outside -- but, he
cautions, as a philosopher.
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