Philosopher whose Nietzsche and Philosophy reread Nietzsche as a philosopher of difference and opened left-wing Nietzscheanism
He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and taught at lycées before moving to the university. In Nietzsche and Philosophy (1962) he read Nietzsche not as a reactionary mystic but as a metaphysician of the play of forces and of difference, set against Hegel's dialectic, and the book did much to establish "left-wing Nietzscheanism" in 1960s France. Around this time he befriended Foucault, and he defended Difference and Repetition as his thesis amid the May 1968 demonstrations. He taught at the University of Paris VIII from 1969 to 1987, and in Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), written with Félix Guattari, analysed the state and capitalism through "desiring-production", which combines Freud's drives and Marx's labour.
Also known as: Gilles Louis René Deleuze
Activities and affiliations
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1948–1957
France state institutionsPhilosophy teacher at state lycées
Education -
1957–1987
France state institutionsPhilosopher at the Sorbonne, CNRS, Lyon and Paris VIIIMain
Scholarship and theory
Career Timeline
- 1944Entered the Sorbonne
- 1948–1957Philosophy teacher at lycées
- 1957–1960Assistant at the Sorbonne
- 1960–1964Researcher at the CNRS
- 1962Nietzsche and Philosophy
- 1964–1969Professor at the University of Lyon
- 1968Defended Difference and Repetition
- 1969–1987Professor at the University of Paris VIII
- 1972Anti-Oedipus with Guattari
- 1980A Thousand Plateaus with Guattari