Deleuze the Dark Precursor

<p><b>A thoughtful and original analysis of the writings of influential French philosopher Gilles Deleuze.</b></p><p>Gilles Deleuze is considered one of the most important French philosophers of the twentieth century. Eleanor Kaufman situates Deleuze in relation to others of his generation such as Jean-Paul Sartre Pierre Klossowski Maurice Blanchot and Claude Lévi-Strauss and she engages the provocative readings of Deleuze by Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek.</p><p><i>Deleuze The Dark Precursor</i> is organized around three themes that critically overlap: dialectic structure and being. Kaufman argues that Deleuze's work is deeply concerned with these concepts even when he advocates for the seemingly opposite notions of univocity nonsense and becoming. By drawing on scholastic thought and reading somewhat against the grain Kaufman suggests that these often-maligned themes allow for a nuanced even positive reflection on apparently negative states of being such as extreme inertia. This attention to the negative or minor category has implications that extend beyond philosophy and into feminist theory film American studies anthropology and architecture.</p>