Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza

by Gilles Deleuze

Book Overview

In this remarkable work, Gilles Deleuze, the renowned French philosopher, reflects on one of the thinkers of the past who most influenced his own sweeping reconfiguration of the tasks of philosophy. For Deleuze, Spinoza, along with Nietzsche and Lucretius, conceived of philosophy as an enterprise of liberation and radical demystification. He locates in Spinoza "a set of affects, a kinetic determination, an impulse" and makes Spinoza into "an encounter,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0942299515
• ISBN13: 9780942299519
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher