Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze was a French philosopher who, from the early 1960s until his death, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia AntiOedipus and A Thousand Plateaus , both cowritten with psychoanalyst Flix Guattari. His metaphysical treatise Difference and Repetition is considered by some to be his magnum opus. A.W. Moore, after citing Bernard Williamss criteria for qualifying as a great thinker, ranks him among the greatest philosophers. His work has influenced a variety of disciplines across philosophy and art, including literary theory, poststructuralism and postmodernism.

Deleuze was born into a middleclass family in Paris and lived there for most of his life. His initial schooling was undertaken during World War II, during which time he attended the Lyce Carnot. He also spent a year in khgne at the Lyce Henri IV. During the Nazi occupation of France, Deleuzes older brother, Georges, was arrested for his participation in the French Resistance, and died while in transit to a concentration camp. In 1944, Deleuze went to study at the Sorbonne. His teachers there included several noted specialists in the history of philosophy, such as Georges Canguilhem, Jean Hyppolite, Ferdinand Alqui, and Maurice de Gandillac, and Deleuzes lifelong interest in the canonical figures of modern philosophy owed much to these teachers. In addition, Deleuze found the work of JeanPaul Sartre attractive.

Source: Wikipedia