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I've been given this assignment at school in which I need to engange with this text of Deleuze's, but I have almost no experience with his thought, aside from a few quick videos, texts and short interviews. I've taken some Heidegger (Being and Time) classes and I know some very basic Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche plus an even more basic notion of other philosophers considered important (at least in the continental tradition) like Hegel and Derrida. Heidegger is the one philosopher I know better and whose thought I feel the most close to and from the little I know from Deleuze I can see there's some similarities in their thought (after all, Heidegger had a big influence on post-structuralism as a whole), but he writes in a very difficult way and I feel I'm only able to make a superficial reading of his text. If someone could talk a bit about him and his relations to other philosophers (especially Heidegger, since I know a bit more about his thought) in a way a beginner can understand it or send me some didactic texts about him and about this book in specific I'll be very grateful.