The Deleuze Seminars is a collection of audio recordings, transcriptions, and English translations of, and supplemental materials from, the lectures French philosopher Gilles Deleuze gave during his career at the University of Paris 8. “Spinoza: The Velocities of Thought” was a 14-lecture seminar given from December 1980 to March 1981. In this seminar, Deleuze revisits his examination of Baruch Spinoza’s philosophy. Deleuze had previously published two books on Spinoza: Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza (Spinoza et le problème de l'expression, 1968), and Spinoza: Practical Philosophy (Spinoza – Philosophie pratique, 1970, 2nd ed. 1981). The majority of these lectures were given the same year as the publication of the second edition of the latter title. In the 13 January 1981 lecture, topics of discussion include: Spinozism and Dutch painting; French artist Paul Claudel and his The Eye Listens (L'œil écoute); Egyptian bas-relief; Christianity and Atheism; the pictorial deformation of bodies; French artist Paul Cézanne; German-American phenomenologist and neurologist Erwin Straus; French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty; French philosopher Henri Maldiney; the phenomenology of feeling; Spinoza's Letters to Blyenbergh, Letter 23; action and the image of things; prophetism, sign and expression; Adam, prophetism and sign language; equivocity; the expression and composition of relations, and the infinite; Christ and the Church; negative theology and symbolism; and the bearing of a body. This dataset includes: two mp3 recordings of the lecture (total time, 1:20:24), an aggregate version of the audio recordings into a single mp3, and the complete French transcription of the recorded lecture in both pdf (30 pp) and plain text. - Les Séminaires de Deleuze sont une collection d'enregistrements audio, de transcriptions et de traductions en anglais et de documents complémentaires des conférences que le philosophe français Gilles Deleuze a donné lors de sa carrière à l'Université de Paris 8. «Spinoza: des vitesses de la ...