Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze (French: [ʒil dəløz], "zheel duh-LOOZ"); 18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher. He wrote about philosophy, literature, movie, and art. His most popular books were the two parts of Capitalism and Schizophrenia. The first part is titled Anti-Oedipus (1972), and the second part is titled A Thousand Plateaus (1980). Both books were written with his academic partner Félix Guattari. He also wrote Difference and Repetition (1968). Some people think that he is among the greatest philosophers.^[1] His work is considered very important in philosophy and art, including literary theory, semiotics, poststructuralism, postmodernism, and psychoanalysis. He has also grown popular in antipsychiatry communities for his criticisms of the psychoanalytic movement, but this remains widely questioned.

1. ↑ A. W. Moore, The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things, Cambridge University Press, 2012, p. 543: 'intellectual power and depth; a grasp of the sciences; a sense of the political, and of human destructiveness as well as creativity; a broad range and a fertile imagination; an unwillingness to settle for the superficially reassuring; and, in an unusually lucky case, the gifts of a great writer.'