Gilles Deleuze

The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze was born in 1925 in Paris. He taught philosophy at high schools (Amiens, Orléans, Paris) and at the universities of Sorbonne (1957-1960), Lyon (1964-1969), and Vincennes (1969-1987). Between 1960 and 1964, he was a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). His major works include: "Difference and Repetition" (1968); "Spinoza and the Problem of Expression" (1969); "The Logic of Sense" (1969); "Anti-Oedipus" (1972, co-authored with Felix Guattari); "A Thousand Plateaus" (1980, co-authored with Felix Guattari); "The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque" (1988); "What is Philosophy?" (1992, co-authored with Felix Guattari). In 1992, his pulmonary condition, which he had been suffering from since 1968, worsened significantly. On November 4, 1995, Deleuze committed suicide. A French magazine offered the following brief characterization of Deleuze, which he seemed to adopt himself: "He traveled little, never joined the communist party, was never a phenomenologist nor a Heideggerian, never renounced Marx, nor did he abandon May '68."