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PHILOSOPHER

Gilles Deleuze

1925 - 1995

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Gilles Louis René Deleuze ( də-LOOZ, French: [ʒil dəløz]; 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 by many scholars 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, and Bergson, with particular influence derived from Spinoza. A. W. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gilles Deleuze has received more than 2,647,782 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia. Gilles Deleuze is the 112th most popular philosopher (down from 104th in 2019), the 223rd most popular biography from France (down from 214th in 2019) and the 13th 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 112 out of 1,081Before him are Joseph Priestley, Friedrich Fröbel, Philo, Pyrrho, Meister Eckhart, and Charles Fourier. After him are John Venn, Bodhidharma, Al-Tabari, George Gurdjieff, Emil Cioran, and Johann Friedrich Herbart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Gilles Deleuze ranks 9Before him are Richard Burton, Pol Pot, Yukio Mishima, Mikis Theodorakis, Paul Newman, and Albert Bandura. After him are Patrice Lumumba, Zygmunt Bauman, Alija Izetbegović, Mahathir Mohamad, Robert F. Kennedy, and Tony Curtis. Among people deceased in 1995, Gilles Deleuze ranks 2Before him is Yitzhak Rabin. After him are Juan Manuel Fangio, Emil Cioran, Harold Wilson, Emmanuel Levinas, Michael Ende, Eugene Wigner, Konrad Zuse, Gunnar Nordahl, Anatoly Dyatlov, and Mikhail Botvinnik.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gilles Deleuze ranks 223 out of 6,011Before him are François Hollande (1954), Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635), Nicolas Sarkozy (1955), Philip V of France (1293), Francis de Sales (1567), and Charles Fourier (1772). After him are Pope Urban VI (1318), François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Philip III of France (1245), Charlotte Corday (1768), and Pope Leo IX (1002).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Gilles Deleuze ranks 13Before him are Peter Abelard (1079), Jean Bodin (1530), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), Roland Barthes (1915), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), and Charles Fourier (1772). After him are Simone Weil (1909), Jean Baudrillard (1929), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), Paul Ricœur (1913), Jean Buridan (1295), and Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709).