The Works of Gilles Deleuze I: 1953-1969

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The Works of Gilles Deleuze I: 1953-1969
Anamnesis

Anamnesis means remembrance or reminiscence, the collection and re-
collection of what has been lost, forgotten, or effaced. It is therefore a
matter of the very old, of what has made us who we are. But anamnesis is
also a work that transforms its subject, always producing something new.
To recollect the old, to produce the new: that is the task of Anamnesis.

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The use of philosophy is to sadden. A philosophy
that saddens no one, that annoys no one, is not a
philosophy. It is useful for harming stupidity, for
turning stupidity into something shameful.

Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy

Contents
Abbreviations page xi
Acknowledgements xiii

Introduction 1
Three formal constants in Deleuze’s work 2
About this book 4

1. Empiricism and Subjectivity 7
Two Humes, two empiricisms 8
Belief, illusion and reason 14
Fiction and madness in the understanding 18
The moral world 21
The genesis of subjectivity 29

2. Nietzsche and Philosophy 33
Nietzsche as philosopher 33
Structural account I: force and quality 38
Structural account II: the will to power 41
The doctrine of the eternal return 45
Genealogical account I: from consciousness to bad conscience 47
Genealogical account II: nihilism and transformation 52

3. Kant’s Critical Philosophy 57
The doctrine of the faculties and the transcendental method 57
The doctrine of the faculties in the Critique of Pure Reason 60
The doctrine of the faculties in the Critique of Practical Reason 65
The doctrine of the faculties in the Critique of the Power of Judgement 70
History and ‘the ruse of nature’ 75

4. Bergsonism 77
Two kinds of multiplicity and their confusion 78
The method of intuition 80
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Memory as virtual co-existence 85
The actualisation of virtual memory in experience 89
Space and time in science and metaphysics 91
The élan vital 95

5. Coldness and Cruelty 103
‘Are Sade and Masoch complementary?’ 103
The language of Masoch and Sade 107
From the drives to disavowal with Freud 111
Five problems with Freud’s account of masochism 115
Fathers and mothers 116
Contracts and institutions, humour and irony 119
Perversion and repetition 124

6. Proust and Signs 131
The spider, the sign, the apprenticeship 132
First regime: the empty worldly signs 134
Second regime: the signs of love 136
Third regime: sensuous signs 138
Fourth regime: the signs of art 140
Essence: singularity, commonality, series, groups 143
The plurality of time 144
The nature of the search 147
The subject of the search 153

7. Difference and Repetition 157
Difference and repetition reconsidered 158
CRITIQUE 159
Objective and subjective misrecognitions of difference 159
The objective misrecognition of difference in the history of philosophy 160
Univocity 173
The subjective misrecognition of difference 176
CONSTRUCTION 190
What is Deleuze’s positive project in Difference and Repetition? 190
The virtual I: Kant and Maimon 191
The virtual II: differential calculus 197
The virtual III: defining the virtual 203
Intensity 204
The intensive individual 213
Temporal synthesis: identity and change over time 218
Human being 231
Indi-drama-different/ciation 242
Introduction ix
8. Logic of Sense 245
The three guiding questions of the Logic of Sense 247
Two events 248
The Stoic distinction between bodies and events 252
Five propositions on the event 258
Language and sense 268
Sense and nonsense 275
Elements of psychoanalysis 279
First genetic moment: simulacra in the schizophrenic depths 285
Second genetic moment: the Icon in the heights 287
Third genetic moment: the bodily surface and the image of the phallus 288
Castration and the phantasm 291
Fourth genetic moment: thought and sense 299
An ethics of the event 304

Works of Gilles Deleuze 315
Other Works Cited 317
Postscript 325