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Pure Immanence collects the essays of Gilles Deleuze on a complex theme at the heart of his philosophy. In his last piece of writing, included here, Deleuze gives a simple name to this problem: “a life.” Newly translated and gathered in one volume for the first time, the essays in…

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Two years ago, I started re-reading as much as I possibly could of my university career, from the first year of my BA to the last day of my PhD. This is an obviously impossible task, but a worthy one, especially because it reveals many books I either didn’t notice before or wound up finding by doing some online research to supplement my re-reading. I finished in 2009, and believe it or not, the Internet then was not the robust tool it is today, so I am constantly unearthing things I probably would never have found back then.

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