Desert Islands

"One day, perhaps, this century will be Deleuzian," Michel Foucault once wrote. This book anthologizes 40 texts and interviews written over 20 years by renowned French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, who died in 1995. The early texts, from 1953-1966 (on Rousseau, Kafka, Jarry, etc.), belong to literary criticism and announce Deleuze's last book, Critique and Clinic (1993). But phil...

"One day, perhaps, this century will be Deleuzian," Michel Foucault once wrote. This book anthologizes 40 texts and interviews written over 20 years by renowned French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, who died in 1995. The early texts, from 1953-1966 (on Rousseau, Kafka, Jarry, etc.), belong to literary criticism and announce Deleuze's last book, Critique and Clinic (1993). But philosophy clearly predominates in the rest of the book, with sharp appraisals of the thinkers he always felt indebted to: Spinoza, Bergson. More surprising is his acknowledgement of Jean-Paul Sartre as his master. "The new themes, a certain new style, a new aggressive and polemical way of raising questions," he wrote, "come from Sartre." But the figure of Nietzsche remains by far the most seminal, and the presence throughout of his friends and close collaborators, Felix Guattari and Michel Foucault. The book stops shortly after the publication of Anti-Oedipus, and presents a kind of genealogy of Deleuze's thought as well as his attempt to leave philosophy and connect it to the outside -- but, he cautions, as a philosopher.

吉尔·德勒兹 法国哲学家，著有《尼采与哲学》《差异与重复》《意义的逻辑》《电影1：运动与影像》《电影2：时间与影像》等。与法国精神分析学家、哲学家菲利克斯?加塔利合著了《反俄狄浦斯》《什么是哲学?》等。

大卫·拉普雅德 巴黎第一大学教授，主要研究美国实用主义哲学、柏格森哲学，著有《威廉·詹姆斯：经验主义与实用主义》《时间的力量：柏格森的版本》《德勒兹：反常的运动》等。他是吉尔·德勒兹的学生。