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ISBN-101890951242

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Book TitlePure Immanence : Essays on Alife

Number of Pages104 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2001

TopicMovements / Empiricism, Essays

GenrePhilosophy

AuthorGilles. Deleuze

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight11.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Reviews"A glimpse into some seminal themes of [Deleuze's] work. This book is worth purchasing for the Nietzsche essay alone." Jennifer Matey Metapsychology, "Taken together, these essays are a sparkling and succinct affirmation of knowledge as something produced through myriad unexpected encounters and an ongoing assemblage of new multiplicities, where a life can never be fully or precisely specified, but remains indefinite and provisional, unfolding through an unending process of becoming." Jody Patterson Parachute, "A glimpse into some seminal themes of [Deleuze's] work. This book is worth purchasing for the Nietzsche essay alone." - Jennifer Matey, Metapsychology

Dewey Edition21

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal194

SynopsisEssays by Gilles Deleuze on the search for a new empiricism.The essays in this book present a complex theme at the heart of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, what in his last writing he called simply "a life." They capture a problem that runs throughout his work--his long search for a new and superior empiricism. Announced in his first book, on David Hume, then taking off with his early studies of Nietzsche and Bergson, the problem of an "empiricist conversion" became central to Deleuze's work, in particular to his aesthetics and his conception of the art of cinema. In the new regime of communication and information-machines with which he thought we are confronted today, he came to believe that such a conversion, such an empiricism, such a new art and will-to-art, was what we need most. The last, seemingly minor question of "a life" is thus inseparable from Deleuze's striking image of philosophy not as a wisdom we already possess, but as a pure immanence of what is yet to come. Perhaps the full exploitation of that image, from one of the most original trajectories in contemporary philosophy, is also yet to come., Pure Immanence collects the essays of Gilles Deleuze on a complex theme at the heart of his philosophy. In his last piece of writing, included here, Deleuze gives a simple name to this problem: "a life." Newly translated and gathered in one volume for the first time, the essays in Pure Immanence capture Deleuze's persistent search throughout his philosophical work for a new and superior form of empiricism that rethinks the relation of thought to life. "I have always felt," writes Deleuze, "that I am an empiricist, that is, a pluralist." Announced in his very first book on David Hume, then pursued in his early studies of Nietzsche and Bergson and in his later "clinical" essays, the issue of an "empiricist conversion" was central to Deleuze's thinking, in particular to his aesthetics and his conception of the art of cinema. For Deleuze, such a conversion, such an empiricism, such a new art and will-to-art were, in fact, what was most needed in the new regime of communication and information-machines. The last, seemingly minor question of "a life" is thus inseparable from Deleuze's striking image of philosophy not as a wisdom we already possess, but as a pure immanence of what is yet to come. Pure Immanence exposes the new and urgent problems such a philosophy confronts today, one whose most difficult task, the invention of "a life," has yet to be achieved.

LC Classification NumberB2430.D452E54 2001