{"product_id":"pure-immanence-essays-on-a-life-9781890951252","title":"Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePure Immanence\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePure Immanence\u003c\/i\u003e capture Deleuze's persistent search throughout his philosophical work for a new and superior form of empiricism that rethinks the relation of thought to life. \"I have always felt,\" writes Deleuze, \"that I am an empiricist, that is, a pluralist.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnnounced in his very first book on David Hume, then pursued in his early studies of Nietzsche and Bergson and in his later \"clinical\" essays, the issue of an \"empiricist conversion\" was central to Deleuze's thinking, in particular to his aesthetics and his conception of the art of cinema. For Deleuze, such a conversion, such an empiricism, such a new art and will-to-art were, in fact, what was most needed in the new regime of communication and information-machines. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe last, seemingly minor question of \"a life\" is thus inseparable from Deleuze's striking image of philosophy not as a wisdom we already possess, but as a pure immanence of what is yet to come. \u003ci\u003ePure Immanence\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the new and urgent problems such a philosophy confronts today, one whose most difficult task, the invention of \"a life,\" has yet to be achieved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNuriye Nalan Sahin-Hodoglugil, M.D., M.P.H., M.A., is affiliated with the Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Public Health Department, Ankara, Turkey, and also with the Bay Area International Group, at the University of California, School of Public Health. She is the author of recent articles in Contraception and Sexually Transmitted Infections. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Zone Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50612467859730,"sku":"9781890951252","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a66bee4c-5fb7-4cb8-a0ba-35614016da62.jpg?v=1732374755","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pure-immanence-essays-on-a-life-9781890951252","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}