Gilles Deleuze
The paragon of my intellectual heroes, Gilles Deleuze is heralded by most as the champion of postmodern French thought, though he vehemently denied such a term. Unlike Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, or Michel Foucault, Deleuze was a pure student of the history of philosophy. And like Leibniz, Bergson, and Nietzsche before him, he challenged the standard history of western thought as it has ben handed down to us by those in his profession. He spent his life turning nearly every single concept we have held dear on its head by reading the works of the past in a different way. In Deleuze, time, space, cognition, the self, the divine: all were transformed and redefined into a new, coherent, and consistent philosophical system devoid of priority, prejudice, and division.
Charles Stivale’s Deleuze Resources: http://www.langlab.wayne.edu/CStivale/D-G/
Another exhaustive site: http://www.mythosandlogos.com/Deleuze.html
Deleuze Studies Site: http://www.eri.mmu.ac.uk/deleuze/