Gilles Deleuze was born in Paris in 1925 and lived there his whole life. He was the son of an conservative, anti-Semitic engineer, a veteran of World War I. Deleuze's brother was arrested by Germans during the Nazi occupation of France for alleged resistance activities, and died on the way to Auschwitz. Schooled at a public school before the war, when the Germans invaded France Deleuze was on vacation in Normandy and spent a year being schooled there. After returning to Paris and finishing his high school education, Deleuze attended the Lycée Henri IV, where he did his kâgne, an intensive year of study for students of promise, in 1945, and then studied philosophy at the Sorbonne with figures such as Jean Hippolyte and Georges Canguilheim. He passed his agrégation in 1948, necessary for entry into the teaching profession, and taught in a number of high schools until 1956.
His first book, Empiricism and Subjectivity, on David Hume, was published in 1953. Over the next ten years, Deleuze held a number of assistant teaching positions in French universities, publishing his important text on Nietzsche (Nietzsche and Philosophy) in 1962. It was also around this time that he met Michel Foucault, with whom he had a long and important friendship. In 1968, Deleuze's doctoral thesis, comprising of Difference and Repetition and Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza were published. In 1969, he took up a teaching post at the University of Paris VII, where he taught until his retirement in 1987. In the same year, he met Félix Guattari, with whom he wrote a number of influential texts, notably the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980). During the seventies, Deleuze was politically active in a number of causes, including membership in the Groupe d'information sur les prisons (formed, with others, by Michel Foucault), and had an engaged concern with homosexual rights and the Palestinian liberation movement. In the eighties, Deleuze wrote a number of books on cinema (the influential studies The Movement-Image (1983) and The Time-Image (1985)) and on painting (Francis Bacon (1981)). Deleuze's final collaboration with Guattari, What is Philosophy?, was published in 1991 (Guattari died in 1992). By 1993 Deleuze took his own life on November 4th, 1995.
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(1953) Empiricism and Subjectivity. trans. Constanine Boundas. New York: Columbia University Press
(1962) Nietzsche and Philosophy. trans. Hugh
Tomlinson. London: Althone Press
(1963) Kant's Critical Philosophy. trans.
Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. London:
Althone Press
(1964) Proust and Signs. trans. Richard Howard.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
(1968) Bergsonism. trans. Hugh Tomlinson and
Barbera Habberjam. New York: Zone Books
(1968) Difference and Repetition. trans. Paul
Patton. New York: Colombia University Press
(1968) Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza.
trans. Martin Joughin. New York: Zone Books
(1969) The Logic of Sense. trans. Mark Lester
and Charles Stivale. New York: Columbia University
Press
(1970) Spinoza: Practical Philosophy. trans.
Robert Hurley. San Francisco: City Lights
Books
(1977) Dialogues (with Claire Parnet) trans.
Hugh Tomlinson and Barbera Habberjam. London:
Althone Press
(1983) Cinema: The Movement Image. trans.
Hugh Tomlinson and Barbera Habberjam. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press.
(1985) The Time Image. trans. Hugh Tomlinson
and Robert Galeta: Minneapolis: University
of Minnesota Press.
(1986) Foucault. trans. Sean Hand. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press.
(1988) The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque.
trans. Tom Conley. Minneapolis: University
of Minnesota Press.
(1990) Negotiations. trans. Martin Joughin.
New York: Columbia University Press
(1993) Essays Critical and Clinical. trans.
Smith and Greco. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press.
With Fèlix Guattari:
(1972) Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia.
trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen
Lane. New York: Viking Press
(1975) Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature.
trans. Dana Polan. Minneapolis: University
of Minnesota Press
(1987) A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and
Schizophrenia. trans. Brian Massumi, Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press.
(1991) What is Philosophy? trans. Hugh Tomlinson
and Graham Burchell. New York: Columbia University
Press
Deleuze and Guattari web
resources:
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/spoons/d-g_html/d-g.html
Control and Becoming: Deleuze interviewed by Antonio Negri
http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpdeleuze3.htm
Gilles Deleuze: Postscript on the Societies of Control
http://www.modcult.brown.edu/students/segall/deleuze.html
Capitalism: A Very Special
Delirium: Deleuze and Guattari Interviewed
http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9604/msg00025.html