The works of Gilles Deleuze -- on cinema, literature, painting, and philosophy -- have made him one of the most widely read thinkers of his generation. This compact critical volume is not only a powerful reappraisal of Deleuze's thought, but also the first major work by Alain Badiou available in English. Badiou compellingly redefines "Deleuzian, " throwing down the gauntlet in the battle over the very meaning of Deleuze's legacy.For those who view Deleuze as the apostle of desire, flu, and multiplicity, Badiou's book is a deliberate provocation. Through a deep philosophical engagement with his writings, Badiou contends that Deleuze is not the Dionysian thinker of becoming he took himself to be; on the contrary, he is an ascetic philosopher of Being and Oneness. Deleuze's self-declared anti-Platonism fails -- and that, in Badiou's view, may ultimately be to his credit. "Perhaps it is not Platonism that has to be overturned, " Badiou writes, "but the anti-Platonism taken as evident throughout this entire century."This volume draws on a five-year correspondence undertaken by Badiou and Deleuze near the end of Deleuze's life, when the two put aside long-standing political and philosophical differences to exchange ideas about similar problems in their work. Badiou's incomparably attentive readings of key Deleuzian concepts radically revise reigning interpretations, offering new insights to even the veteran Deleuze reader and serving as an entree to the controversial notion of a "restoration" of Plato advocated by Badiou -- in his own right one of the most original figures in postwar French philosophy.The result is a critical tour de force that repositions Deleuze, one of the mostimportant thinkers of our time, and introduces Badiou to English-speaking readers.

阿蘭‧巴迪歐 法國重要哲學傢，在政治立場上以法國毛主義者及對共産主義的捍衛著稱。巴迪歐早年受阿爾都塞的深刻影響，認為隻有透過數學邏輯纔能展開存在論的思考。在最重要的著作《存在與事件》（1988）中，存在論被發展成一種數學的集閤論。愛、藝術、政治與科學是巴迪歐哲學的四個基點。

譯者簡介：

楊凱麟 颱北藝術大學藝術跨領域研究所教授。研究當代法國哲學、美學與文學評論。著有《分裂分析德勒茲》《分裂分析福柯》《書寫與影像》《虛構集》，譯有《德勒茲論福柯》《消失的美學》等。