Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze was a French philosopher who developed a philosophy of difference, becoming, and multiplicity. With Félix Guattari he wrote Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus, proposing radical new concepts such as rhizome, deterritorialisation, and the plane of immanence.

Deleuze's solo works — studies of Hume, Bergson, Nietzsche, Kant, Spinoza — were not mere commentaries but the development of an original philosophy through creative encounter. His collaboration with Guattari produced one of the most ambitious and contested theoretical projects of late twentieth-century thought.