In the texts collected in this volume, José Ezcurdia attempts a panoramic approach to the thought of Gilles Deleuze, delving into the notions of body, intuition and difference that run transversally through the entirety of his philosophical production. The author bases his research on the ontological significance of intuitive knowledge in Spinoza and Bergson to reveal “the simultaneously materialist and vitalist character of Deleuze's philosophy [… in] his consideration of archaic Greek philosophy, his reading of Nietzsche and Spinoza, his studies on the Renaissance, his reflections on the emergence and power of the minor, as well as his criticism of modernity, capitalism and the philosophy of the Same from the framework of his conception of the Indian future.

In his prologue, Alberto Constante points out that these essays by Ezcurdia allow us to see the keys to a thought from which little has escaped since they have allowed him to maintain a constant dialogue with psychoanalysis, political philosophy, literature, linguistics, contemporary art, as well as his original approaches to cinema, architecture and urban planning, but also thermodynamics, biology, ethnology, and his essential investigations into postcolonialism and the societies of control that are beginning to emerge with the use of Internet and the introduction of social networks. In the work of the French philosopher, Constante concludes, “art, literature and philosophy would be focused mainly on constituting science in everyday life, in the hic et nunc of our being in the world, thus overcoming essentialism and space in the one where these are found”; hence it can be stated that “Gilles Deleuze is, without a doubt, the thinker of the 21st century.”