ABSTRACT
Gilles Deleuze (1925-95) was a philosopher. He was born in France in 1925 and, after a long illness, committed suicide in 1995. He studied at the Sorbonne under Georges Canguilhem and Jean Hyppolite. He later taught philosophy at the Sorbonne, the University of Lyon, and, at the invitation of Michel FOUCAULT, at the experimental University of Paris VIII. He retired in 1987. Deleuze was a prolific writer, penning individual monographs on both philosophy and literature, including studies of Hume, Bergson, Spinoza, Nietzsche, Proust, Atrtaud, and Lewis Carroll; critiques of Kantian and Platonic thought; and considerations of such issues as representation, linguistic meaning, subjectivity, and difference.
