Deleuze: A Philosophy of the Event

François Zourabichvili was a director at the Collège international de philosophie in Paris from 1998 to 2004. He is the author of Deleuze: A Philosophy of the Event (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and Spinoza: Une physique de la pensée (Presses Universitaires de Paris, 2002) Gregg Lambert is Dean's Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University and Distinguished International Scholar, Kyung Hee University, South Korea. He is author of many previous works on Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy, including The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (Continuum, 2002), Who’s Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari? (Continuum, 2005), In Search for a New Image of Thought: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Expression (University of Minnesota, 2012); Philosophy After Friendship: Deleuze’s Conceptual Personae (University of Minnesota, 2017) and ‘The People are Missing’: On Minor Literature Today (University of Nebraska Press, 2020). Kieran Aarons is a fellow at the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Daniel W. Smith is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University and one of the world's leading commentators on Deleuze. He has translated his work, edited collections and written numerous articles on Deleuze. He is the author of Essays on Deleuze (EUP, 2012) and co-editor of Between Deleuze and Foucault (EUP, 2016), The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze (2012), Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text (2009), Deleuze and Ethics (EUP, 2011) and Deleuze and Time (EUP, 2023).

François Zourabichvili has long been acknowledged as one of the finest French readers of Deleuze and the author of one of the most compelling ‘strong interpretations’ of Deleuze’s philosophy. This excellent translation of his two short books is a significant and welcome development in English language Deleuze scholarship.

• List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Translator’s Introduction: "The Involuntarist Image of Thought"; Editors’ Introduction: "François Zourabichvili and the Physics of Thought"; Deleuze: A Philosophy of the Event (1994/2004); The Vocabulary of Deleuze (2003); Selected Bibliography of François Zourabichvili's Work; Index.