Gilles Deleuze

Frida Beckman is Professor in Comparative Literature at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University, Sweden. She is the author of Culture Control Critique: Allegories of Reading the Present (2016) and Between Desire and Pleasure: A Deleuzian Theory of Sexuality (2013) and editor of Deleuze and Sex (2011).

"In the crowded market of books on Gilles Deleuze, Frida Beckman&#39s biography of Deleuze is remarkable for its diligent and thorough account of the authors prodigiously creative life in and with philosophy. Beckman focuses on a precise group of facets childhood, apprenticeship, friendship, practice and life as a means of understanding the multiple assemblages that constitute Deleuzes work in relation to a life. For although it is the work that counted most for Deleuze, Beckman draws from a stunning array of primary and secondary texts, interviews, and letters to offer a skillful and faithful study accessible to new readers of Deleuze, yet valuable for the Deleuzean connoisseur." - Charles W Stivale, Distinguished Professor of French at Wayne State University"Gilles Deleuze is now recognized to be among the most important French philosophers of the 20th Century. His desire for privacy and his critique of the individual subject present particular difficulties for the biographer, however. Frida Beckman masters these difficulties admirably. Drawing upon a wide range of critical discussions of Deleuzes work as well as the recently published edition of Deleuzes Lettres et Autres Textes, Beckman skillfully weaves together a narrative that moves between Deleuzes life and what he called a life. Along the way, many of Deleuzes most important concepts are clarified and critically analyzed in a way that will make this Critical Life both a valuable resource for scholars and an excellent introduction to his life and work." - Alan D. Schrift, F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy, Grinnell College"Beckman draws from a stunning array of primary and secondary texts, interviews, and letters to offer a skillful and faithful study." - Charles W. Stivale, Distinguished Professor of French at Wayne State University"Skillfully weaves together a narrative that moves between Deleuzes life and what he called a life. Along the way, many of Deleuzes most important concepts are clarified and critically analyzed in a way that will make this Critical Life both a valuable resource for scholars and an excellent introduction to his life and work." - Alan D. Schrift, F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy, Grinnell College