FREN 6535

Deleuze

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.

This seminar provides an opportunity to study aspects of the philosophical oeuvre of Gilles Deleuze. Our point of departure will be Deleuze's 1968 book Difference and Repetition.  We'll later consider some of Deleuze's key concepts and problems, as they unfolded in essays co-authored with Félix Guattari (including the two-volumne set on Capitalism and Schizophrenia), and beyond (such as the diptych devoted to Cinema).  Our goal is neither to provide a chronological overview of Deleuze's scholarship, nor to add his ideas to a putative "tool box" that we might opportunistically use without much concern for intellectual provenience.

When Offered Spring.

Comments Reading knowledge of French is a plus, though not a requirement: all texts will be available in their original version, as well as English translation. Conducted in English.

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