This course comprises part one of a full-year program that will present a survey of all of the works of Gilles Deleuze. The course will be structured around a single requirement - to read and discuss each book entirely on its own terms. We will not, therefore, be looking to construct 'the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze' but just to understand, in miniature, each of his works. In this way, the aim will be to appreciate the specificity and richness of these works without subordinating them to the register of generality. The final week of the semester will be devoted to questions and discussion of the works we have discussed so far. The second part of this course will be delivered in semester two 2024.
Readings: each week, two short readings will be provided. The first will be an extract from the work under discussion, while the second will be from an interview, or some other work, that casts light on Deleuze's aims.
Level: Intermediate. No familiarity with Deleuze's philosophy will be presumed, but his works are rich and sometimes challenging.
Course Schedule
| 11 March | Week 1 | Empiricism and Subjectivity |
| 18 March | Week 2 | Nietzsche and Philosophy |
| 25 March | Week 3 | Kant’s Critical Philosophy |
| 1 April | Week 4 | Bergsonism |
| 8 April | Week 5 | Proust and Signs |
| 15 April | Week 6 | Masochism |
| 22 April | Week 7 | Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza |
| 29 April | Week 8 | Difference and Repetition 1 |
| 6 May | Week 9 | Difference and Repetition 2 |
| 13 May | BREAK | |
| 20 May | Week 10 | Logic of Sense 1 |
| 27 May | Week 11 | Logic of Sense 2 |
| 3 June | Week 12 | Q&A |