Understanding Deleuze

Deleuze’s name is associated with some strange concepts (machines désirantes, ritournelle, machine de guerre or lignes de fuite). Yet these impressive notions are easy to explain, as long as we have the intuition that orders his work. This book helps us to understand the thread that binds Deleuze’s thought, notably through literary characters such as Bartleby, Lancelot and the Princess of Cleves. Deleuze appears undogmatic, open to variation and to the invention of a multiplicity of possible meanings of life.

 

The author, Philippe Mengue, is an agrégé and Doctor of Philosophy. He teaches at the Collège International de Philosophie (2010-2012). His previous publications include Gilles Deleuze ou le système multiple (Kirmé, 1995), Deleuze et la question de la démocratie (L’Harmattan, 2003), Utopies et devenirs deleuziens (L’Harmattan, 2009).

Illustrator Aleksi Cavaillez works for magazines such as XXI and Libération. With Viktor Vejvoda, he has also published a travel diary, Via Baltica. Estonie, Lettonie, Lituanie, sur la route des pays Baltes (Noir sur Blanc, 2007).