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Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) was a French philosopher known for his influential works on metaphysics, language, and cinema theory. He taught at the University of Paris VIII and collaborated with Félix Guattari on several major texts, including 'A Thousand Plateaus.
Known for: A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Difference And Repetition
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A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
A Thousand Plateaus is the second volume of Deleuze and Guattari’s landmark project Capitalism and Schizophrenia. This work explores concepts such as multiplicity, rhizome, and becoming, offering a no...
Difference And Repetition
Difference and Repetition is a seminal work by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, first published in 1968. The book develops the concepts of 'difference in itself' and 'repetition for itself,' offerin...
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Plateau 1 – 'Introduction: Rhizome'
The opening plateau lays out the fundamental metaphor and method: the rhizome. Unlike a tree, which hierarchically organizes knowledge through roots and branches, the rhizome proliferates horizontally. Any point can connect to any other; there is no center, no origin, no hierarchy. Félix and I insis...
From A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Plateau 2 – '1914: One or Several Wolves?'
Here we encounter the question of multiplicity in its relation to psychoanalysis. Freud, interpreting the Wolf-Man, confined desire to the familial triangle—father, mother, child. We reexamine this case and ask: was the Wolf-Man’s dream of wolves about one wolf or several? By privileging unity, Freu...
From A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Difference in Itself
Philosophy has too often treated difference as something that can be understood only in relation to identity. The entire lineage of Western logic — from Aristotle’s categories to Hegel’s dialectic — defines difference negatively. To say that A differs from B has meant that A is not B, that differenc...
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Repetition for Itself
If difference is productive, then repetition too must be freed from the logic of identity. Ordinary thought treats repetition as recurrence — the return of the same. But to repeat something in that sense is merely to reproduce, to copy, to iterate. What I call repetition for itself is entirely disti...
From Difference And Repetition
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Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) was a French philosopher known for his influential works on metaphysics, language, and cinema theory. He taught at the University of Paris VIII and collaborated with Félix Guattari on several major texts, including 'A Thousand Plateaus.' Deleuze’s philosophy emphasizes cre...
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Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) was a French philosopher known for his influential works on metaphysics, language, and cinema theory. He taught at the University of Paris VIII and collaborated with Félix Guattari on several major texts, including 'A Thousand Plateaus.' Deleuze’s philosophy emphasizes cre...
Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) was a French philosopher known for his influential works on metaphysics, language, and cinema theory. He taught at the University of Paris VIII and collaborated with Félix Guattari on several major texts, including 'A Thousand Plateaus.' Deleuze’s philosophy emphasizes creativity, multiplicity, and the rejection of traditional dualisms.
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