Jean-Claude Dumoncel is a philosopher and a mathematician. His PhD thesis dealt with the Whitehead system and analytic philosophy. He published several books, among which on Wittgenstein (Le jeu de Wittgenstein; essai sur la Mathesis Universalis, PUF, 1991). He teaches the History of Mathematics at the University of Caen, and contributes to the review of aesthetics and contemporary art Exposé.

Between Proust and Deleuze is brewing a history of signs that Jean-Claude Dumoncel reveals to us by opening up an original way of analysis: starting from conceptual instruments that were brought out by Deleuze, he exposes the Proustian formal schemes through two major contemporary philosophers: Gabriel Tarde and Henri Bergson. Dumoncel's book is unclassifiable: a philosophical inquiry springing from literary critique, it twists the figures of Proust and Deleuze in a text that could as much be a parable as a delightful digression on the inner workings of the philosophical novel.

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