Gilles Deleuze

Difference and Repetition, a brilliant exposition of the critique of identity, has come to be considered a contemporary classic in philosophy and one of Deleuze's most original works. Successfully defended in 1969 as Deleuze's main thesis toward his Doctorat d'Etat at the Sorbonne, the work has been central in initiating the shift in French thought away from Hegel and Marx, towards Nietzsche and Freud. The text follows the development of two central concepts, those of pure difference and complex repetition. It shows how the two concepts are related - difference implying divergence and decentering, and repetition implying displacement and disguising. In its explication the work moves deftly between Hegel, Kierkegaard, Freud, Althusser, and Nietzsche to establish a fundamental critique of Western metaphysics . Difference and Repetition has become essential to the work of literary critics and philosophers alike, and this translation his been long awaited.

"Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (b. 1835) was a Professor of History and a celebrated German novelist of the latter half of the 19th century. Here, in Venus in Furs, Masoch's most famous novel, one finds the entire constellation of symbols that has come to characterize the masochistic syndrome - fetishes, whips, disguises, fur-clad women, contracts, humiliations, punishment and of course the perpetual and volatile presence of a terrible coldness. Yet what we actually encounter has little to do with these reductive caricatures." "Deleuze's essay is an attempt to restore to Masoch's work the rigorous and informed philosophical examination that is due it. Deleuze's essay - the most profound study yet produced on the relations between Masochism and Sadism - seeks to develop and explain Masoch's peculiar way of 'desexualizing' love while at the same time sexualizing the entire history of humanity."--BOOK JACKET.

Als Leser von Nietzsche müssen wir vier mogliche Mißverständnisse vermeiden: 1. über den Willen zur Macht (glauben, daß der Wille zur Macht „Wunsch zu herrschen“ oder „die Macht zu wollen“ bedeutet); 2. über die Starken und Schwachen (glauben, daß die „Mächtigsten“ in einer Gesellschaft dadurch die „Starken“ sind); 3. über die ewige Wiederkunft (glauben, daß es sich um einen Kreislauf handelt, um eine Rückkehr des Gleichen und eine Rückkehr zum Gleichen); 4. über die letzten Werke Nietzsches (glauben, daß diese Werke übertrieben oder bereits durch den Wahnsinn disqualifiziert sind). Wer Nietzsche liest, ohne zu lachen, ohne viel zu lachen, ohne oft und manchmal wie verrückt zu lachen, für den ist es, als ob er Nietzsche nicht läse.

Giles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key figure in poststructuralism and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. In "Foucault", Deleuze presents one of the most incisive and productive analyses of the work of Michel Foucault. This is a crucial examination of the philosophical foundations and principal themes of Foucault's work, providing a rigorous engagement with Foucault's views on knowledge, punishment, power, and the nature of subjectivity.

xiv,250p. ; 22 cm