Deleuze and Guattari Illustrated: A New Philosophical Series

Éditions Ollendorff & Desseins has launched a collection of illustrated philosophy books titled 'Le sens figuré'. The series includes four volumes: Spinoza et les bêtes by A. Suhamy and A. Daval, L'Humanisme de Michel Foucault by D. Ottaviani and I. Boinot, Nietzsche l'éveillé by Y. Constantinidès and D. MacDonald, and Deleuze et Guattari à vitesse infinie by Jérôme Rosanvallon and Benoît Preteseille. In a review by Elie During in art press n°361 (November 2009), the books are praised for their successful hybrid of image and concept. The Spinoza volume reinterprets the Ethics through animal examples, Nietzsche features a tattooed philosopher and a Buddhist Zarathustra, and Foucault presents disciplined bodies. The Deleuze and Guattari book is noted for its rhythmic abstraction. The series challenges the traditional suspicion of illustrations in philosophy, offering a 'pop'philosophie' approach where image and concept coexist in counterpoint.