Essays Critical and Clinical was the final work of the late Gilles Deleuze, one of the most important and vital figures in contemporary philosophy. It includes essays, all newly revised or published here for the first time, on such diverse literary figures as Herman Melville, Wait Whitman, D. H. Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence, Samuel Beckett, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Alfred Jarry, and Lewis Carroll, as well as philosophers such as Plato, Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger.For Deleuze, every literary work implies a way of living, a form of life, and must be evaluated not only critically but also clinically. As Proust said, great writers invent a new language within language, but in such a way that language in its entirety is pushed to its limit or its own "outside". This outside of language is made up of affects and percepts that are not linguistic, but which language alone nonetheless makes possible. In Essays Critical and Clinical, Deleuze is concerned with the delirium -- the process of Life -- that lies behind this invention, as well as the loss that occurs, the silence that follows, when this delirium becomes a clinical state. Taken together, these eighteen essays present a profoundly new approach to literature by one of the greatest twentieth-century philosophers.

德勒茲簡介

吉爾•德勒茲（Gilles Deleuze，1925－1995），法國最著名的後現代哲學傢之一，以創造眾多富有洞見的哲學新概念著稱，對形而上學和藝術哲學做齣瞭獨特的貢獻。和瓜塔裏（Félix Guattari）一起，他們創造瞭去疆界化（déterritorialisation）的概念，並對精神分析和資本主義進行瞭綜閤批判。其主要學術著作包括《差異與重復》（Différence et répétition，1968）、《感覺的邏輯》（Logique du sens，1969），以及與瓜塔裏閤著的《反俄狄浦斯》（L'Anti-Œdipe，1972）、《韆高原》（Mille plateaux，1980）等，在哲學、文學、電影和繪畫等多個領域具有重要的影響力。