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Pure Immanence
Publisher
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Hachette Littératures, Editions de Minuit, Presses Universitaires de France
Parution date
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1995
EAN
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9782130492184
Description
Pure Immanence collects the essays of Gilles Deleuze on a complex theme at the heart of his philosophy. In his last piece of writing, included here, Deleuze gives a simple name to this problem: "a life." Newly translated and gathered in one volume for the first time, the essays in Pure Immanence capture Deleuze’s persistent search throughout his philosophical work for a new and superior form of empiricism that rethinks the relation of thought to life. "I," writes Deleuze, "have always felt that I am an empiricist, that is, a pluralist."
The issue of an "empiricist conversion" was central to Deleuze’s thinking, in particular to his aesthetics and his conception of the art of cinema. For Deleuze such a conversion, such an empiricism, such a new art and will-to-art was, in fact, what was most needed in the new regime of communication and information-machines. The last seemingly minor question of "a life" is thus inseparable from Deleuze’s striking image of philosophy not only as a wisdom we already possess, but as a pure immanence of what is yet to come. Pure immanence exposes the new and urgent problems such a philosophy confronts today, one whose most difficult task, the invention of "a life," has yet to be achieved.
Author
Gilles Deleuze : Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII, Vincennes/Saint Denis. Zone Books has also published his Bergsonism, Coldness and Cruelty, and Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza.
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