The works of Gilles Deleuze -- on cinema, literature, painting, and philosophy -- have made him one of the most widely read thinkers of his generation. This compact critical volume is not only a powerful reappraisal of Deleuze's thought, but also the first major work by Alain Badiou available in English. Badiou compellingly redefines "Deleuzian, " throwing down the gauntlet in the battle over the very meaning of Deleuze's legacy.For those who view Deleuze as the apostle of desire, flu, and multiplicity, Badiou's book is a deliberate provocation. Through a deep philosophical engagement with his writings, Badiou contends that Deleuze is not the Dionysian thinker of becoming he took himself to be; on the contrary, he is an ascetic philosopher of Being and Oneness. Deleuze's self-declared anti-Platonism fails -- and that, in Badiou's view, may ultimately be to his credit. "Perhaps it is not Platonism that has to be overturned, " Badiou writes, "but the anti-Platonism taken as evident throughout this entire century."This volume draws on a five-year correspondence undertaken by Badiou and Deleuze near the end of Deleuze's life, when the two put aside long-standing political and philosophical differences to exchange ideas about similar problems in their work. Badiou's incomparably attentive readings of key Deleuzian concepts radically revise reigning interpretations, offering new insights to even the veteran Deleuze reader and serving as an entree to the controversial notion of a "restoration" of Plato advocated by Badiou -- in his own right one of the most original figures in postwar French philosophy.The result is a critical tour de force that repositions Deleuze, one of the mostimportant thinkers of our time, and introduces Badiou to English-speaking readers.
阿兰‧巴迪欧 法国重要哲学家，在政治立场上以法国毛主义者及对共产主义的捍卫著称。巴迪欧早年受阿尔都塞的深刻影响，认为只有透过数学逻辑才能展开存在论的思考。在最重要的著作《存在与事件》（1988）中，存在论被发展成一种数学的集合论。爱、艺术、政治与科学是巴迪欧哲学的四个基点。
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杨凯麟 台北艺术大学艺术跨领域研究所教授。研究当代法国哲学、美学与文学评论。著有《分裂分析德勒兹》《分裂分析福柯》《书写与影像》《虚构集》，译有《德勒兹论福柯》《消失的美学》等。