Understanding Deleuze

The name Deleuze is associated with strange concepts (desiring machines, ritornello, war machine or lines of flight). However, these impressive notions can be explained simply, once we have the intuition that organizes his work. This work gives us access to an understanding of the thread that ties Deleuze's thought together, particularly through literary characters such as Bartleby, Lancelot and the Princess of Cleves. Deleuze thus appears as non-dogmatic, himself open to variation and to the invention of a multiplicity of possible meanings of life. auteur, Philippe Mengue, est agrege et docteur d Etat en philosophie. Il enseigne au College International de Philosophie (2010-2012). Il a deja publie entre autres Gilles Deleuze ou le systeme multiple (Kirme, 1995), Deleuze et la question de la democratie (L Harmattan, 2003), Utopies et devenirs deleuziens (L Harmattan, 2009). L illustrateur, Aleksi Cavaillez travaille notamment pour la revue XXI et Liberation. Il a egalement publie avec Viktor Vejvoda un carnet de voyage, Via Baltica. Estonie, Lettonie, Lituanie, sur la route des pays Baltes (Noir sur Blanc, 2007).