Deleuze

This book is part of Nanjing University Press's "Contemporary Radical Thinkers Translation Series." Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was a French postmodernist philosopher, considered a left-wing Nietzschean and a member of the post-Marxist movement. This book, by Deleuze's "enemy," the French philosopher Alain Badiou, explores Deleuze's thought in his own way, centering on the concept of "the capital One" and other topics. Divided into ten chapters, Badiou attempts to present a movement of thought—one that resists, accelerates, and decelerates, overturns, and reverses Deleuze's thought—in the manner of a philosopher.
This short book can be seen as an introduction to the philosophy of both Deleuze and Badiou. Furthermore, its involvement with Deleuze, a contemporary philosopher whom Badiou repeatedly contests and challenges, raises the stakes dramatically, transforming it into a "battle of the gods" of contemporary French philosophy. One must be well-equipped and well-protected to penetrate the battlefield where these two gods clash with thunder and lightning. Badiou is undoubtedly the director of this book, but through his somewhat self-serving performance, one can see that amidst the smoke and dust of war, the most radical and intriguing ideas of the 20th century have undoubtedly opened up a unique perspective on contemporary French philosophy.

出版日期/Publication Date：October 1, 2018
出版社/Publisher：南京大学出版社
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页数/Page: 161