Proper noun
Deleuze
A surname from French
Badiou is, by any criteria, one of the most significant and original philosophers working in France today and perhaps the only serious rival of Deleuze and Derrida for that meaningless but unavoidable title of 'most important contemporary French philosopher'. Alain Badiou
He [Deleuze] said of Spinoza that he was the Christ of philosophy. To do Deleuze full justice, let us say that, of this Christ and his inflexible announcement of salvation by the All - a salvation that promises nothing, a salvation that is always already there - he was truly a most eminent apostle. Baruch Spinoza
A masochist's perception of their own self-subjugating sadistic desires and capacities are treated by Deleuze as reactions to prior experience of sadistic objectification. Source: Internet
Following his rejection of any metaphysics based on identity, Deleuze criticizes the notion of an individual as an arresting or halting of differentiation (as the etymology of the word "individual" suggests). Source: Internet
Before Deleuze, however, Sartre had presented his own theory of sadism and masochism, at which Deleuze's deconstructive argument, which took away the symmetry of the two roles, was probably directed. Source: Internet
Deleuze once famously described his method of interpreting philosophers as " buggery (enculage)", as sneaking behind an author and producing an offspring which is recognizably his, yet also monstrous and different. Source: Internet