Аннотация: Wrote for this: At the Crossroads of Thought: Deleuze and/in Contemporary Philosophy
Gilles Deleuze"s (1925-1995) philosophy operates as a dynamic crossroads, a turbulent zone where philosophical traditions are not merely inherited but deterritorialized and reconfigured into a living conceptual ecology. His concept of difference, articulated in "Difference and Repetition" (1968), disrupts the primacy of identity in Western metaphysics, proposing instead a generative ontology of multiplicity and becoming (Deleuze 1994: 1-27).
Deleuze"s difference emerges as a radical break from the representational logic of Kant and Hegel, who subordinate difference to identity through dialectical synthesis or categorical frameworks. In contrast, Deleuze posits difference as ontologically primary, a force that precedes and produces identities (Deleuze 1994: 36). He draws on Spinoza"s immanence, where substance expresses itself through infinite attributes without hierarchical ordering (Spinoza 1996: 68-70). Deleuze rearticulates this as a plane of immanence, where differences coexist in a non-totalizing multiplicity.
Nietzsche"s eternal return further informs Deleuze"s rejection of static essences. For Nietzsche, the eternal return affirms difference by selecting only that which differs in its becoming (Deleuze 1994: 41-42). Deleuze extends this to argue that repetition is not a return of the same but a production of the new through difference. Similarly, Hume"s empiricism, with its focus on relations of ideas rather than fixed substances, provides Deleuze with a framework for a differential ontology where relations are external to their terms (Deleuze 1994: 70-71).
Bergson"s concept of duration, emphasizing the qualitative multiplicity of time, further enriches Deleuze"s system, allowing him to conceive difference as an intensive process rather than a static opposition (Bergson 1998: 44-46).
Deleuze constructs an ontology that prioritizes becoming over being. In the Anthropocene, Deleuzian difference invites us to map new trajectories for thought, transforming philosophy into a practice of invention and displacement.
References:
Bergson, H. (1998). Creative evolution (A. Mitchell, Trans.). Dover.
Deleuze, G. (1994). Difference and repetition (P. Patton, Trans.). Columbia University Press, pp. 1-71.
Spinoza, B. (1996). Ethics (E. Curley, Trans.). Penguin.