- Life
- 18 January 1925 — 4 November 1995
- Country
- France
- Period
- 20th century
- School
- Continental philosophy · post-structuralism
- Affiliation
- University of Paris VIII, Vincennes (1969–1987)
- Areas
- Metaphysics, History of philosophy, Aesthetics, Political philosophy, Film theory, Philosophy of literature
- Major works
- Empirisme et subjectivité (1953; Empiricism and Subjectivity)
- Nietzsche et la philosophie (1962; Nietzsche and Philosophy)
- La philosophie critique de Kant (1963; Kant's Critical Philosophy)
- Le bergsonisme (1966; Bergsonism)
- Spinoza et le problème de l'expression (1968; Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza)
- Différence et répétition (1968; Difference and Repetition)
- Logique du sens (1969; The Logic of Sense)
- L'Anti-Œdipe (1972, with Félix Guattari; Anti-Oedipus)
- Mille plateaux (1980, with Félix Guattari; A Thousand Plateaus)
- Cinéma 1: L'image-mouvement (1983; Cinema 1: The Movement-Image)
- Cinéma 2: L'image-temps (1985; Cinema 2: The Time-Image)
- Qu'est-ce que la philosophie? (1991, with Félix Guattari; What Is Philosophy?)
- Post-scriptum sur les sociétés de contrôle (1990; Postscript on the Societies of Control)
- Key concepts
- Difference and repetition, The rhizome, Assemblage, Deterritorialisation, Becoming, Multiplicity, The body without organs, Desiring-production, The plane of immanence, The univocity of being, The virtual and the actual, Movement-image and time-image, Societies of control
- Influenced by
- David Hume, Baruch Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the Stoics, Michel Foucault
- Influenced
- Continental philosophy after 1968, film and media theory, literary criticism, aesthetics, political theory and the social sciences