Gregg Lambert is Dean's Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University, New York, USA.

"A smart, fast, witty book which surveys Deleuze's philosophy with an intellectual agility, a sparkling intelligence, and an effortless command of film, post-Cartesian philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature in several languages. Students of film, visual culture, theory and anyone who wants to know a little more about continental philosophy will find this book invaluable. This is a book that breathes, that braces, that empowers, that makes you 'see' sudden and startling new associations and then want to play along with Deleuze's concepts so as to apply them to new films, books, or theoretical issues."--Jean Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania

• Preface: On the art of commentary. Part I On the image of thought from Leibniz to Borges ("time of its hinges"); Philosophy and "non-philosophy"; How time places truth in crisis; How the problem of judgement; The paradox of concepts. Part II On the (baroque) line: "The mind-body problem" and the art of cryptography; The riddle of the flesh (the "fuscum subnigrum"); On God (the "place vide"). Part III On the powers of the false: The baroque detective - Borges as prosecutor; How the true world became a fable; Artaud's problem and ours - belief in the world as it is; On the uses (and abuses) of literature for life. Conclusion: On the art of creating concepts.

Gregg Lambert is Dean's Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University, New York, USA.

"A smart, fast, witty book which surveys Deleuze's philosophy with an intellectual agility, a sparkling intelligence, and an effortless command of film, post-Cartesian philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature in several languages. Students of film, visual culture, theory and anyone who wants to know a little more about continental philosophy will find this book invaluable. This is a book that breathes, that braces, that empowers, that makes you 'see' sudden and startling new associations and then want to play along with Deleuze's concepts so as to apply them to new films, books, or theoretical issues."--Jean Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania

• Preface: On the art of commentary. Part I On the image of thought from Leibniz to Borges ("time of its hinges"); Philosophy and "non-philosophy"; How time places truth in crisis; How the problem of judgement; The paradox of concepts. Part II On the (baroque) line: "The mind-body problem" and the art of cryptography; The riddle of the flesh (the "fuscum subnigrum"); On God (the "place vide"). Part III On the powers of the false: The baroque detective - Borges as prosecutor; How the true world became a fable; Artaud's problem and ours - belief in the world as it is; On the uses (and abuses) of literature for life. Conclusion: On the art of creating concepts.

Gregg Lambert is Dean's Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University, New York, USA.

"A smart, fast, witty book which surveys Deleuze's philosophy with an intellectual agility, a sparkling intelligence, and an effortless command of film, post-Cartesian philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature in several languages. Students of film, visual culture, theory and anyone who wants to know a little more about continental philosophy will find this book invaluable. This is a book that breathes, that braces, that empowers, that makes you 'see' sudden and startling new associations and then want to play along with Deleuze's concepts so as to apply them to new films, books, or theoretical issues."--Jean Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania

• Preface: On the art of commentary. Part I On the image of thought from Leibniz to Borges ("time of its hinges"); Philosophy and "non-philosophy"; How time places truth in crisis; How the problem of judgement; The paradox of concepts. Part II On the (baroque) line: "The mind-body problem" and the art of cryptography; The riddle of the flesh (the "fuscum subnigrum"); On God (the "place vide"). Part III On the powers of the false: The baroque detective - Borges as prosecutor; How the true world became a fable; Artaud's problem and ours - belief in the world as it is; On the uses (and abuses) of literature for life. Conclusion: On the art of creating concepts.