ABSTRACT
Over what were to be the final years of his life, Gilles Deleuze engaged in a long written correspondence with Alain Badiou. Badiou, in the light of his magnum opus Being and Event (L’Être et l’événement), published in 1988, had come to see Deleuze’s philosophical project as the closest among those of his contemporaries to his own, and in turn saw Deleuze as his key rival in the attempt to present a philosophy of multiplicity and immanent being. This correspondence, unfortunately never published owing to Deleuze’s dissatisfaction with its abstract tone (DCB 6/14), concluded at the end of 1994, shortly before the latter’s death. In 1997, Badiou published Deleuze: The Clamor of Being (Deleuze: Le clameur de L’Être), which was a final letter to Deleuze, a summary of their epistolary disagreements and a restatement of the critical appraisal of Deleuze’s thought first expressed directly to Deleuze himself.
