Gilles Deleuze is considered one of the most important French
philosophers of the twentieth century. Eleanor Kaufman situates
Deleuze in relation to others of his generation, such as Jean-Paul
Sartre, Pierre Klossowski, Maurice Blanchot, and Claude
Levi-Strauss, and she engages the provocative readings of Deleuze
by Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek.
"Deleuze, The Dark Precursor" is organized around three themes
that critically overlap: dialectic, structure, and being. Kaufman
argues that Deleuze's work is deeply concerned with these concepts,
even when he advocates for the seemingly opposite notions of
univocity, nonsense, and becoming. By drawing on scholastic thought
and reading somewhat against the grain, Kaufman suggests that these
often-maligned themes allow for a nuanced, even positive reflection
on apparently negative states of being, such as extreme inertia.
This attention to the negative or minor category has implications
that extend beyond philosophy and into feminist theory, film,
American studies, anthropology, and architecture.
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