Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life

Scholars and dabblers in philosophy will appreciate this brief posthumous collection of Gilles Deleuze's writings, Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life. Deleuze (Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza), a noted and controversial professor of philosophy at the University of Paris VIII, here variously writes on ""a transcendental empiricism in contrast to everything that makes up the world of the subject and the object""; Dickens, Wagner and other artists; aesthetics, particularly cinema; and communication and information-machines. There are essays on Hume and Nietzsche, a discussion of the ""plane of immanence,"" his final work before his death in 1995. Trans. by Anne Boyman; intro. by John Rajchman. ( May 15)