Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987

Charles J. Stivale is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of French at Wayne State University, Detroit. His books and journal articles are in nineteenth and twentieth-century French Studies and on Deleuze and Guattari, most recently, Gilles Deleuze’s ABCs: The Folds of Friendship (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008). He has translated or co-translated The Logic of Sense (with Constantin V. Boundas and Mark Lester; Columbia University Press, 1990, Bloomsbury, 2015), Félix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography, by Franco Berardi (Bifo) (with Giuseppina Mecchia; Palgrave-MacMillan, 2008), Deleuze and Claire Parnet, Gilles Deleuze, From A to Z (DVD, MIT Press/Semiotext(e), 2011), Deleuze On Painting and Deleuze On Spinoza (with the Deleuze Seminars Translation Collective; University of Minnesota Press, 2025 and forthcoming). He serves as co-director with Daniel W. Smith of The Deleuze Seminars, deleuze.cla.purdue.edu.

This book is pure gold for all of us who want to think alongside Deleuze. Stivale’s clear summaries and rich contexts deliver the relational mesh in which Deleuze’s writings came into being. We can almost hear the students crowding the seminar room, the sound recordists’ cassette changes, and the susurration of growing, living concepts.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1. Preface: The Deleuze Seminars as Creative Becoming1.1 The Deleuze Seminars: Recordings, Transcripts and Translations1.2 The Deleuze Seminars, mode d’emploi1.3 Summaries and Commentary OrganizationPart I: The Seminars, pre-recordings2. Anti-Oedipus at Vincennes2.1 Deleuze’s ‘Missing Years’, 1969–712.2 The Anti-Oedipus Seminar I, 1971–722.3 The Anti-Oedipus Seminar II, 1972–732.4 The Anti-Oedipus Seminar III, 1973–743. A Thousand Plateaus on Italian TV3.1 A Thousand Plateaus Seminar I, 1975–764. Spinoza and Kant with A Thousand Plateaus4.1 A Thousand Plateaus Seminar II, 1976–774.2 A Thousand Plateaus Seminar II, 1976–774.3 A Thousand Plateaus Seminar III, 1977–784.4 Kant Seminar, 19784.5 A Thousand Plateaus Seminar IV, 1978–79Part II. The Seminars, recordings5. Back to the Future: A Thousand Plateaus, Leibniz, Anti-Oedipus5.1 A Thousand Plateaus Seminar V, 1979–805.2 Leibniz: Philosophy and the Creation of Concepts Seminar, 19805.3 Anti-Oedipus and Other Reflections, 19806. At St. Denis, with Spinoza and Painting6.1 Spinoza, The Velocities of Thought Seminar, 1980–816.2 Painting and the Question of Concepts Seminar, 19817. First Cinema Reflections: The Movement-Image, 1981–828. Second Cinema Reflections: Classification of Signs and Time, 1982–839. Third Cinema Reflections: Truth and Time – The Falsifier, 1983–8410. Fourth Cinema Reflections: Cinema and Thought, 1984–8511. Homage to a Friend: Foucault, 1985–8611.1 Knowledge (Historical Formations), sessions 1–811.2 Power, sessions 9–1911.3 Subjectification, sessions 20–2612. Leibniz and the Baroque, 1986–8712.1 Leibniz as Baroque Philosopher, sessions 1–512.2 Principles and Freedom, sessions 6–2013. New Departures, Toward Other Folds13.1 Control13.2 A to Z13.3 What is Philosophy?BibliographyIndex