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 Pure Immanence 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.-
Announced 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 co
