Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987 - by Charles J Stivale (Hardcover)

About the Book

A rich resource of Deleuze's research that is unavailable in his published writing.

Book Synopsis

The texts in this volume - summaries of the 216 seminars taught by Gilles Deleuze - provide unique insight into the latter half of Deleuze's teaching career. Deleuze understood his seminars as a laboratory for developing his ongoing research, and this volume is a guide to the creative becomings in the development of his philosophical works through teaching. From Anti-Oedipus (1972) to The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (1987), Deleuze examined a wide range of philosophical perspectives in pursuit of successive thematic topics. These summaries and commentaries serve as incitement for further research, allowing readers familiar with Deleuze's work to find new angles of approach and providing greater access to readers coming to his work for the first time.

Review Quotes

As a reader who has benefited immeasurably from Charles Stivale's excellent translations and scholarship over the decades, this latest gift of the Deleuze seminars to an English-speaking audience feels unduly unreciprocated. Yet, I am confident it will inspire new research into Deleuze's pedagogy and, perhaps, repay the author in some small way for his tireless endeavors.--Joff P. N. Bradley, Teikyo University, Japan.

From Cinema through philosophers to innovating creative becomings for living life, these seminars present over 200 gems from Deleuze which return the reader to the affirmative joy of being within a pedagogic fold with Deleuze. Stivale's commentary provides a sensitive and nuanced revelation that is a reminder of the wonder visiting and revisiting Deleuze incites.--Patricia MacCormack, Anglia Ruskin University, UK.

This book is pure gold for all of us who want to think alongside Deleuze. Stivale's clear summaries and rich contexts deliver the relational mesh in which Deleuze's writings came into being. We can almost hear the students crowding the seminar room, the sound recordists' cassette changes, and the susurration of growing, living concepts.--Laura U. Marks, Simon Fraser University