The Cambridge Companion to

DELEUZE

Each volume of this series of companions to major phil-

osophers contains specially commissioned essays by an
international team of scholars, together with a substantial
bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students
and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the
intimidation such readers feel when faced with the work of
a difficult and challenging thinker.
Gilles Deleuze (1925–95) was an inluential and provocative
twentieth-century thinker who developed and presented an
alternative to the image of thought found in traditional phil-
osophy. This volume offers an extensive survey of Deleuze’s
philosophy by some of his most inluential interpreters. The
essays give lucid accounts of the fundamental themes of his
metaphysical work and its ethical and political implications.
They clearly situate his thinking within the philosophical
tradition, with detailed studies of his engagements with phe-
nomenology, post-Kantianism, and the sciences, and also his
interventions in the arts. As well as offering new research
on established areas of Deleuze scholarship, several essays
address key themes that have not previously been given the
attention they deserve in the English-speaking world.

New readers will ind this the most convenient, accessible

guide to Deleuze currently available. Advanced students and
specialists will ind a conspectus of recent developments in
the interpretation of Deleuze.

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 The Cambridge Companion to
DELEUZE
Edited by

Daniel W. Smith
Purdue University

and

Henry Somers-Hall
Royal Holloway, University of London

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