Zone Books | Expressionism In Philosophy: Spinoza (1992 EN)

Author: Gilles Deleuze
Full Title: Expressionism In Philosophy: Spinoza
Publisher: Zone Books; 1st edition (February 18, 1992)
Year: 1992
ISBN-13: 9781942130642 (978-1-942130-64-2), 9780942299519 (978-0-942299-51-9), 9780942299502 (978-0-942299-50-2)
ISBN-10: 1942130643, 0942299515, 0942299507
Pages: 446
Language: English
Genre: Philosophy
File type: EPUB (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: $29.95


In this remarkable work, Gilles Deleuze, the renowned French philosopher, reflects on one of the thinkers of the past who most influenced his own sweeping reconfiguration of the tasks of philosophy. For Deleuze, Spinoza, along with Nietzsche and Lucretius, conceived of philosophy as an enterprise of liberation and radical demystification. He locates in Spinoza “a set of affects, a kinetic determination, an impulse” and makes Spinoza into “an encounter, a passion.”

Expressionism in Philosophy was the culmination of a series of monographic studies by Deleuze (on Hume, Bergson, Nietzsche, Proust, Kant, and Sacher-Masoch) and prepared the transition from these abstract treatments of historical schemes of experience to the nomadology of Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus, co-authored with Félix Guattari). Thus, Expressionism in Philosophy is both a pivotal reading of Spinoza’s work and a crucial text within the development of Deleuze’s thought.

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