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Henry Somers-Hall

Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition.
An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide

Introduction

Intro sect.1

Intro sect.2: Challenges in Reading Deleuze

 

Intro sect.3: The Structure of the Text

Intro sect. 4: How to Use this Guide

Part 1: A Guide to the Text

0 Introduction: Repetition and Difference

0.1 Introduction

0.2 Science and Repetition (1-3/1-4)

0.3 Kant’s Moral Law (3–5/4–5)

0.4 Kierkegaard (5–9/5–10)

0.5 Extension and Comprehension (11–16/13–18)

0.6 Incongruent Counterparts (13–14/15, 23–7/26–31)

0.7 Conclusion [to the Introduction]: Three Forms of Difference

Chapter 1. Difference in Itself



1.1 Introduction (28–30/36–8)

1.2 Aristotle’s Conception of Difference (30–3/38–42)

1.3 Aristotle’s Conception of Being (32–5/41–4)

1.4 Duns Scotus (35–6/44–5, 39–40/48–9)

1.5 Spinoza (40/49–50)

1.6 Nietzsche (36–7/45–7, 40–2/50–2, 52–5/63–7)

1.7 The Eternal Return (40–2/50–2)

1.8 Infinite Representation (42–4/52–4, 48–54/59–65)

1.9 Hegel (44–6/54–6, 51–3/62–4)

1.10 Leibniz (43–4/54, 46–52/56–63)

1.11 Phenomenology (55–7/67–9)

 

1.12 Plato (59–69/71–83)

Chapter 2. Repetition for Itself



2.1 Introduction [Introductory Material For Ch.2]

 

2.2 Background: Kant’s Three Syntheses of Time
[Further Introductory Material For Ch.2]

2.3 Deleuze’s First Synthesis of Time: Hume (70–9/90–100)

 

2.4 Deleuze’s Second Synthesis: Bergson (79–85/100–7)

2.5 The Third Synthesis 1: The Pure Form of Time (85–9/107–11)

2.6 The Third Synthesis 2: Two Different Paralogisms (85–7/107–10)

2.7 The Third Synthesis 3: Hamlet and the Symbol of the Third Synthesis (88–92/111–16)

2.8 The Third Synthesis 4: The Esoteric Doctrine of the Eternal Return (90/113, 93–6/117–19)

2.9 Freud (16–19/18–22, 96/119–20)

2.10 Freud’s First Synthesis (96–8/119–22, 111–14/136–40)

2.11 Freud’s Second Synthesis (98–111/122–35)

2.12 Freud’s Third Synthesis: The Death Drive (110–14/135–40)

Chapter 3. The Image of Thought

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Feuerbach and the Postulate of the Principle (129–33/164–8)

3.3 Descartes and the Postulates of Common Sense and Recognition (132–4/168–70)

3.4 Kant and the Postulate of Representation (134–8/170–4)

3.5 Plato and the Encounter (138–45/175–83)

3.6 The Kantian Sublime and the Discordant Relation of the Faculties (145–6/183–4)

3.7 Descartes on the Postulate of the Negative or Error (146–53/184–91)

3.8 The Postulate of the Proposition (153–6/191–5)

3.9 The Postulate of Modality or Solutions (156–64/195–204)

3.10 Conclusion: The Postulate of Knowledge (164–7/204–8)

Chapter 4. Ideas and the Synthesis of Difference

4.1 Introduction: Kant and Ideas (168–71/214–17)

4.2 Ideas and the Differential Calculus (170–82/217–30)

4.3 Ideas and the Wider Calculus (178–84/226–32)

4.4 First Example: Atomism as a Physical Idea (184/232–3)

4.5 Second Example: The Organism as Biological Idea (184–5/233–4)

4.6 Third Example: Are there Social Ideas, in a Marxist Sense? (186/234–5)

4.7 The Relations of Ideas (186–7/235–6)

4.8 Essence, Possibility and Virtuality (186–8/235–7, 208–14/260–6)

4.9 Learning and the Discord of the Faculties (188–97/237–47)

4.10 The Origin of Ideas (195–202/244–52)

4.11 The Origin of Negation (202–4/253–5, 206–8/257–60)

4.12 Actualisation (214–21/266–74)

Chapter 5. The Asymmetrical Synthesis of the Sensible

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Thermodynamics and Transcendental Illusion (222–9/280–8)

5.3 Merleau-Ponty and Depth (229–32/288–91, 241–4/302–5)

5.4 The Three Characteristics of Intensity (232–40/291–300)

5.5 Individuation (244–56/305–19)

5.6 The Other (256–61/319–25, 281–2/351–2)

The Two Prefaces: After Difference and Repetition (xv–xxii/xiii–xx)

Part 2: A Guide to the Text

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Somers-Hall, Henry. Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition. An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University, 2013.