Week 1
Introduction to the Course: Introduction to Deleuze’s Work
Week 2
Deleuze on Hume, empiricism, and subjectivity
Reading: G. Deleuze,
Hume,
Empiricism and Subjectivity
A Treatise of Human Nature
, especially chapters 1, 5, and 6.
, esp. Book One, Part 1, Part 3 (sections 1-3), Part
4; Book Two, Part 1 (sections 1-4); Book Three, Parts 1 & 2.
Week 3
Deleuze on Lucretius and Naturalism
Reading: G. Deleuze, “Lucretius and the Simulacrum” (appendix to the Logic of
Sense ).
Lucretius, The Nature of the Universe (Penguin Classics), especially books 1-3.
Week 4
Deleuze on Bergsonism
Reading: G. Deleuze, Bergsonism , chapters 1 and 5; see also ‘Bergson’s Conception
of Difference’ (1956), in Desert Islands and Other Texts .
Bergson, ‘Introduction to Metaphysics’ in The Creative Mind ; Creative Evolution ,
Introduction and chapter three.
Week 5
Deleuze on Nietzsche and Philosophy: Genealogy, Critique, and Forces
Reading: G. Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy , especially chapters 1-3.
Nietzsche,
Science
On the Genealogy of Morality
book four.
, esp. preface, essays 1 & 2; The Gay
Week 7
Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Ethics
Reading: G. Deleuze, Spinoza: Practical Philosophy , chapters 1 & 2.
Plus: Aurelia Armstrong, “The Passions, Power, and Practical Philosophy: Spinoza and Nietzsche contra the Stoics”, in
Journal of Nietzsche Studies , 44: 1, 2013, pp. 6-
25; Alan D. Schrift, “Spinoza versus Kant: Have I been Understood?”, in Ansell-

Week 8
Pearson (ed.), Nietzsche and Political Thought (Bloomsbury Press, 2013), pp. 107-23.
Deleuze on Spinoza and the Empirical Education
Reading: G. Deleuze, Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza , esp. Part Three, chapters XII-IXX.
Spinoza, The Ethics , especially books 3, 4, & 5.
Week 9
Deleuze on Univocity, Immanence, and Transcendental Empiricism
Reading: Deleuze, ‘The Image of Thought’, in Difference and Repetition (chapter three); ‘Becoming-Animal’ in A Thousand Plateaus (esp. the ‘Memories of a
Bergsonian’ and ‘Memories of a Spinozist’); ‘’Immanence: A Life’, in Deleuze, Pure
Immanence (Zone Books), pp. 25-35.
Week 10
Deleuze on ‘what is philosophy?’: the creation of concepts and events
Reading: Deleuze and Guattari, What is Philosophy?
, esp. Part One, chapters 1-4.