La Philosophie critique de Kant.

£1,250 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A presentation copy, inscribed by the author ‘Pour Monsieur de Gandillac - qu’il soit indulgent pour ce livre - en sique de reconnaissance et d’affection profondes, Gilles Delueze’ in blue ink to the half title. The recipient, Maurice de Gandillac (1906-2006), was Professor of History of the Middle Ages and Renaissance philosophy at the Sorbonne from 1946 to 1977, where he exercised considerable influence over Deleuze’s generation of philosophers; indeed, his list of students reads almost as a ‘who’s who’ of post-structuralist philosophers, including Deleuze as well as Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser and Jean-François Lyotard, amongst others. Gandillac’s influence on Deleuze is particularly noteworthy as he supervised Deleuze’s principal thesis for the Doctorat D’Etat, what would become Deleuze’s principal original philosophical work, eventually published in 1968 as Difference and Repetition. Gandillac’s great specialism in the history of philosophical thought was also influential to the development of the Deleuze’s first published books, which responded to various key figures from across the history of philosophy, including David Hume, Spinoza, Nietzsche, Henri Bergson, and the present book on Kant. Systematising Kant’s three critiques in just over 100 pages, this short study is an astonishing act of intellectual compression on Deleuze’s part, one with which he is able to critique Kant’s project from within with great clarity and concision. As framed by Del

• Year: 1963

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