A controversial critique of an iconic philosopher.Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential French philosophers of the  last century.This book aims to make sense of his fundamental project in the  clearest possible terms, by engaging with the central idea that informs  virtually all of his work: the equation of being and creativity. It explores  the various ways in which, in order to affirm an unlimited creative power,  Deleuze proceeds to dissolve whatever might restrict or mediate its expression,  including the organisms, objects, representations, identities, and relations  that this power generates along the way.  Rather than a theorist of material complexity or relational difference, Out  of this World argues that Deleuze is better read as a spiritual and  extra-worldly philosopher.  His philosophy leaves little room for processes of social or historical  transformation, and still less for political relations of conflict or  solidarity.  Michel Foucault famously suggested that the 20th century would be known as  'Deleuzian'; this sympathetic but uncompromising new critique suggests that our  Deleuzian century may soon be coming to a close.

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