Professor Desire

Michel Foucault's blurb is stamped on the back of What is Philosophy? like a slogan: "Perhaps one day this century will be known as Deleuzian." Deleuze insisted that Foucault made the quip to amuse their fans and irritate their enemies, but it's presence on the back of the latest Deleuze and Guattari translation indicates two things: One, that one senses something mighty in Deleuze, an epochal shift in the plate tectonics of thought. And two, that in America, a personal...