The first book dedicated to Gilles Deleuze's seminal study of Henri Bergson's philosophy

Henri Bergson is widely accepted as one of the most significant thinkers for Gilles Deleuze’s work. It is also frequently noted that Deleuze is largely responsible for having revived and contoured the prevailing interest in Bergson’s work. Craig Lundy gives readers of Deleuze and Bergson an opportunity to discover and fully connect with an encounter that continues to exert enormous influence over the course of contemporary thought.

Key Features

Provides a critical analysis of Deleuze’s engagement with Bergson, situating it within the broader trajectory of Bergson’s 20th–21st century reception

Explains the origin of concepts central to Deleuze’s work, such as multiplicity and the virtual

Demonstrates in detail how the various components of Deleuze’s Bergsonism work together to create a productive and progressively emergent whole

Craig Lundy is Senior Lecturer in Social Theory at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of Deleuze's Bergsonism (2018), History and Becoming: Deleuze’s Philosophy of Creativity (2012) and co-editor with Daniela Voss of At the Edges of Thought: Deleuze and Post-Kantian Philosophy (2015), all published with Edinburgh University Press.