In the climate of "post-May," René Schérer is part of the "group of friends" philosophers who met Gilles Deleuze at the University of Vincennes: François Châtelet, Michel Foucault, Michel Serres, Jean-François Lyotard. A friend of Deleuze. "But not intimate," says the author.
Deleuze's work is not only profuse, it is also unclear. He has written books on complex and profound philosophers, literature, painting, cinema, on psychoanalysis and politics. It seems impossible to comprehend it at all levels, in nooks and crannies, walking along its lines of continuity. But Scherer succeeds him with this collection of articles discusses the work. From an article by youth of 1946, the bourgeoisie of Christ until his last written 1995 Immanence: a life.
Does your strategy? Composing as a photographer or a filmmaker what he calls "views". They are windows or visors, left with our eyes the whole work of the French philosopher, each through a theme that runs through it: life and death, the policy of the impersonal, becomings, homosexuality, desire, the forgotten, the marginalized of philosophy.
This avoids the foreignness, the strangeness of a historian of philosophy. But also avoids intimacy, pure interiority to throw him to the culture of the quote Deleuze abhorred: calls for each "view" not only titles and Deleuze variations, but other authors that light, political senses, climates and personal sensitivities and period, prolonged investigations and delves into unresolved problems. He composes a friend and look but not intimately the work of Deleuze.