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==Book Description==
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]] that became available in [[English]]. Badiou compellingly redefines what it means to be “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]], flux, 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 most important thinkers of our [[time]], and introduces Badiou to English-[[speaking]] readers.
