Gilles Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism: From Tradition to Difference (Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies)

Subjectivity is itself an event that philosophy has tried to situate in an evanescent present as a dominating self-awareness equipped with common sense. But Deleuze insists that it requires a lifetime of effort to extract out of a multitude of potential a particular biography one can call one’s own. Empiricism’s disconnected bits and pieces cannot be arbitrarily separated into subject and object by transcendent laws and logic to assure a single fixed and truthful world running with a dialectical motor. Deleuze suggests a univocity based in difference. Being must be said, in a single and same sense, __of__ all its individuating differences or intrinsic modalities. The plane of immanence coexists with the nomadic, unblocked distribution of things. Reconstructs Deleuze's philosophy as transcendental empiricism: two philosophies previously seen as contradictory. Deleuze's readings of Hume, Spinoza, Bergson and Nietzsche respond to philosophical critiques of classical and modern empiricism. However, Deleuze's arguments against those critiques - by Kant, Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger - consolidate the philosophy of immanence that can be called 'transcendental empiricism'. Marc Rölli offers us a detailed examination of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of transcendental empiricism. He demonstrates that Deleuze takes up and radicalises the empiricist school of thought developing a systematic alternative to the mainstreams of modern continental philosophy. "Deleuze's readings of Hume, Spinoza, Bergson and Nietzsche respond to philosophical critiques of classical and modern empiricism. However, Deleuze's arguments against those critiques--by Kant, Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger--consolidate the philosophy of immanence that can be called 'transcendental empiricism'. Marc Rolli offers us a detailed examination of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of transcendental empiricism. He demonstrates that Deleuze takes up and radicalises the empiricist school of thought developing a systematic alternative to the mainstreams of modern continental philosophy." Cover page 4