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20th century · 1925–1995

Who influenced Gilles Deleuze?

Influences

Philosophy as creation of concepts — rhizomes, difference, and becoming over being.

Gilles Deleuze was influenced by Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche and Henri Bergson. That is 3 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.

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Who was Gilles Deleuze?

Gilles Deleuze wrote on ontology, social critique, film and painting from the early 1950s until his death. Much of his work reinterprets earlier philosophers, among them the Stoics, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche and Bergson.

Difference and Repetition (1968) is considered his main work. His best-known books are the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), written with Félix Guattari. He called himself a pure metaphysician, but his concepts have been taken up in art, literary theory, musicology and sociology.

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Who influenced Gilles Deleuze?

3 direct influences on this map, earliest first.

The line of teachers behind Gilles Deleuze

The longest documented line of influence ending at Gilles Deleuze runs 25 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.

  1. Thales of Miletus
  2. Anaximenes of Miletus
  3. Anaxagoras
  4. Socrates
  5. Antisthenes
  6. Diogenes of Sinope
  7. Crates of Thebes
  8. Zeno of Citium
  9. Seneca
  10. Tertullian
  11. Augustine of Hippo
  12. Anselm of Canterbury
  13. Peter Lombard
  14. Thomas Aquinas
  15. René Descartes
  16. Thomas Hobbes
  17. Baruch Spinoza
  18. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  19. Christian Wolff
  20. Immanuel Kant
  21. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  22. F. W. J. Schelling
  23. Georg W. F. Hegel
  24. Max Stirner
  25. Friedrich Nietzsche
  26. Gilles Deleuze

Two steps away from Gilles Deleuze

Indirect influences

Contemporaries of Gilles Deleuze

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Gilles Deleuze, with no direct line between them.

Gilles Deleuze by the numbers

Direct influences
3
Direct followers
0
Thinkers upstream
95
Thinkers downstream
0
Wikipedia languages
69 — #27 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
Card rarity
Epic

Questions about Gilles Deleuze

Who influenced Gilles Deleuze?
Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Nietzsche and Henri Bergson.
Who did Gilles Deleuze influence?
No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Gilles Deleuze.
When did Gilles Deleuze live?
1925–1995. The map files Gilles Deleuze under the 20th century.
How rare is the Gilles Deleuze card?
Wikipedia carries an article on Gilles Deleuze in 69 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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