On Spinoza by Gilles Deleuze - ISBN: 9781517920166
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Deleuze on Spinoza: unlocking life’s potential through reason and good.
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Summary

Through newly transcribed and translated lectures, Deleuze explores Spinoza’s philosophy concerning questions of good and evil and humanity’s potential for realizing a full life

Available for the first time in English, On Spinoza presents the annotated transcripts of Gilles Deleuze’s fifteen seminars on the seventeenth-century philosopher’s Ethics, delivered at the experimental University of Vincennes at the behest of Michel Foucault. Spinoza’s ambitious…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781517920166
ISBN-10:1517920167
Author:Gilles Deleuze, David Lapoujade, Charles J. Stivale, the Deleuze Seminars Translation Collective, Simon Duffy, Timothy S. Murphy
Publisher:University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:University of Minnesota Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:464
Release Date:1 December 2026
Weight:709g
Dimensions:216mm x 140mm x 23mm
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Critics Review

“It is fortunate that we now have the translation of Deleuze’s earliest seminar on Spinoza, meticulously pieced together by the translators from fragmentary transcripts and recordings, where Deleuze first presents the vital vision of Spinoza’s system as an image of thought composed by at least three different speeds.” –Gregg Lambert, author of In Search of a New Image of Thought: Gilles Deleuze and Philosophical Expressionism

About The Author

Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) was professor of philosophy at the University of Paris, Vincennes–St. Denis. He coauthored Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus with Felix Guattari. He is the author of many books, including Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation; Cinema 1: The Movement-Image; Cinema 2: The Time-Image; The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque; and Proust and Signs: The Complete Text.

David Lapoujade is professor of philosophy at Université Paris 1–Sorbonne. He is the author of several books, including Powers of Time: Versions of Bergson; The Lesser Existences: Étienne Souriau, an Aesthetics for the Virtual; and Aberrant Movements: The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. He is also the editor of On Painting: Courses, March–June 1981.

Charles J. Stivale is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Wayne State University. He is the translator of Gilles Deleuze from A to Z, as well as Deleuze’s Logic of Sense, and, with the Deleuze Seminars Translation Collective, On Painting: Courses, March–June 1981.

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