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Gilles Deleuze

1925 - 1995

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Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), both co-written with psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. His metaphysical treatise Difference and Repetition (1968) is considered to be his magnum opus. An important part of Deleuze's oeuvre is devoted to the reading of other philosophers: the Stoics, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Spinoza, and Bergson. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gilles Deleuze is the 114th most popular philosopher (down from 111th in 2019), the 235th most popular biography from France (down from 218th in 2019) and the 11th most popular French Philosopher.

Gilles Deleuze is a French philosopher, who is most famous for his work on the philosophy of language and post-structuralism.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Gilles Deleuze ranks 114 out of 1,267. Before him are Jeremy Bentham, Antisthenes, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Emil Cioran, Bodhidharma, and John Scotus Eriugena. After him are Meister Eckhart, Padmasambhava, Tertullian, William of Ockham, Ibn Taymiyyah, and Bonaventure.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Gilles Deleuze ranks 12. Before him are B.B. King, Paul Newman, Yukio Mishima, Mahathir Mohamad, Patrice Lumumba, and Robert Edwards. After him are Alija Izetbegović, Zygmunt Bauman, Albert Bandura, Jorge Rafael Videla, Tony Curtis, and Giorgio Napolitano. Among people deceased in 1995, Gilles Deleuze ranks 5. Before him are Yitzhak Rabin, Siad Barre, Bob Ross, and Emil Cioran. After him are Juan Manuel Fangio, Emmanuel Levinas, Adolf Butenandt, Eugene Wigner, Hannes Alfvén, Mikhail Botvinnik, and Maurizio Gucci.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gilles Deleuze ranks 235 out of 6,770. Before him are Michel Platini (1955), Louis, Grand Dauphin (1661), Joseph Bonaparte (1768), Gabriel Fauré (1845), Christian Dior (1905), and Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789). After him are Richard II of England (1367), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), Frédéric Mistral (1830), Louis X of France (1289), Nicéphore Niépce (1765), and Georges Seurat (1859).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Gilles Deleuze ranks 11. Before him are Michel Foucault (1926), Henri Bergson (1859), Peter Abelard (1079), Roland Barthes (1915), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), and Jean Bodin (1530). After him are Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Simone Weil (1909), Charles Fourier (1772), Paul Ricœur (1913), Marquis de Condorcet (1743), and Jean Buridan (1295).

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