Pure Immanence
Subtitle: Essays on A Life
Publisher: Zone Books
Published: June 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781890951245
Subjects: Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Empiricism; Philosophy Of Mind; Literary Collections; Philosophy; Metaphysics; Epistemology; History & Surveys - Modern; Philosophy / General; Essays; Immanence (Philosophy)
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."".

"Announced in his very first book on Hume, then pursued in his early studies of Nietzsche and Bergson and in his later "clinical" essays, 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 as a wisdom we already possess, but as a pure immanence of what is yet 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."--BOOK JACKET.