About the Author

Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was professor of philosophy at the University of Paris, Vincennes-St. Denis. With Félix Guattari, he coauthored Anti-Oedipus (1983), A Thousand Plateaus (1987), and Kafka (1986). He was also the author of The Fold (1993), Cinema 1 (1986), Cinema 2 (1989), Foucault (1988), and Kant's Critical Philosophy (1985). All of these books were published in English by the University of Minnesota Press.

Daniel W. Smith has also translated Deleuze's Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation and Pierre Klossowski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, both of which are forthcoming.

Michael A. Greco is a photographer and freelance translator based in Paris.