Bergsonism
by Gilles Deleuze | 
Spinoza
by Gilles Deleuze | 
A Thousand Plateaus
by Gilles Deleuze | 
Plato at the Googleplex
by Rebecca Goldstein | 
The World as Will and Idea
by Arthur Schopenhauer | 
Philosophy For Dummies
by Tom Morris | 
Modes of Thought
by Alfred North Whitehead | 
Philosophy: 100 Essential Thinkers
by Philip Stokes | 
An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
by David Hume | 
Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings
by Ludwig Wittgenstein | 
The Last Word
by Thomas Nagel | 
Matter and Memory
by Henri Bergson | 
Spinoza
by Roger Scruton | 
The Heart of Philosophy
by Jacob Needleman | 
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy
by Roger Scruton | 
Philosophy of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
by Richard H. Popkin | 
The Little Book Of Philosophy
by Andre Comte-Sponville | 
Nietzsche and Philosophy
by Gilles Deleuze | 
Of Grammatology
by Jacques Derrida | 
The Creative Mind
by Henri Bergson |
Difference and Repetition, a brilliant exposition of the critique of identity, has come to be considered a contemporary classic in philosophy and one of Deleuze's most original works. Successfully defended in 1969 as Deleuze's main thesis toward his Doctorat d'Etat at the Sorbonne, the work has been central in initiating the shift in French thought away from Hegel and Marx, towards Nietzsche and Freud. The text follows the development of two central concepts, those of pure difference and complex repetition. It shows how the two concepts are related - difference implying divergence and decentering, and repetition implying displacement and disguising. In its explication the work moves deftly between Hegel, Kierkegaard, Freud, Althusser, and Nietzsche to establish a fundamental critique of Western metaphysics. Difference and Repetition has become essential to the work of literary critics and philosophers alike, and this translation his been long awaited.