Deleuze, Gilles
French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art.
His metaphysical treatise Difference and Repetition (1968) is considered by many scholars to be his magnum opus.[1] An important part of Deleuze's oeuvre is devoted to the reading of other philosophers: the Stoics, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, and Bergson, with particular influence derived from Spinoza.
Although he once characterized himself as a "pure metaphysician",[16] his work has influenced a variety of disciplines across the humanities, including philosophy, art, and literary theory, as well as movements such as post-structuralism and postmodernism.