DOI: 10.4231/f49n-3c77
title: Leibniz and the Baroque, Lecture 20, June 2, 1987

description: &lt;p&gt;A series of lectures given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at the University of Paris 8. This twentieth lecture is organized within a 20-lecture seminar that Deleuze taught between October 1986 and June 1987, presented on June 2, 1987.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To consider the theme of &ldquo;harmony&rdquo; (also the subject of chapter 9 in &lt;em&gt;The Fold&lt;/em&gt;) in this final seminar of Deleuze&rsquo;s teaching career, Deleuze turns to several specialists in music, notably Pascale Criton and Vincent Valls, as well as Richard Pinhas, hence a seminar dominated by interventions from the participants in dialogue with Deleuze. The session is distinctive in being the second during the seminar to be filmed (in part), produced by Marielle Burkhalter [see YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JBMX6uECxc]. At the end, after reminding the students of the solely administrative session the following Tuesday, Deleuze closes by thanking the participants for making the Seminar such a success and then by suggesting that this final session, while having produced some confused impressions, nonetheless provides him with new points of departure for his work. &ldquo;So there we are (&lt;em&gt;et voil&agrave;), &lt;/em&gt;thank you very much&rdquo;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This dataset includes one .mp3 audio file of the original recorded lecture and the complete French transcription and English translation in odt format.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Les S&eacute;minaires de Deleuze sont une collection d&#39;enregistrements audio, de transcriptions et de traductions en anglais et de documents compl&eacute;mentaires des conf&eacute;rences que le philosophe fran&ccedil;ais Gilles Deleuze a donn&eacute; lors de sa carri&egrave;re &agrave; l&#39;Universit&eacute; de Paris 8.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Pour aborder le th&egrave;me de &laquo; l&rsquo;harmonie &raquo; (qui est aussi le sujet du chapitre 9 dans &lt;em&gt;Le Pli&lt;/em&gt;) dans ce s&eacute;minaire final de la carri&egrave;re p&eacute;dagogique de Deleuze, Deleuze se tourne vers plusieurs sp&eacute;cialistes de la musique, notamment Pascale Criton et Vincent Valls, ainsi que Richard Pinhas, d&rsquo;o&ugrave; un s&eacute;minaire domin&eacute; par les interventions des participants en dialogue avec Deleuze. La s&eacute;ance se distingue aussi en &eacute;tant la seconde dans le s&eacute;minaire d&rsquo;&ecirc;tre film&eacute; par une &eacute;quipe dirig&eacute;e par Marielle Burkhalter. A la fin, apr&egrave;s avoir rappel&eacute; aux &eacute;tudiants la s&eacute;ance purement administrative du mardi suivant, Deleuze conclut en remerciant les participants d&rsquo;avoir fait du s&eacute;minaire un tel succ&egrave;s, puis en sugg&eacute;rant que cette s&eacute;ance finale, bien qu&rsquo;ayant produit des impressions confuses, lui fournit n&eacute;anmoins de nouveaux points de d&eacute;part pour son travail. &laquo; Et voil&agrave;, merci beaucoup &raquo;.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Seminar of 20 sessions given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at Paris 8-St. Denis University, October 28, 1986, to June 2, 1987, Deleuze’s final seminar in his career. This twentieth (and final) session was presented on June 2, 1987.