Deleuze and the Problem of Experience - Transcendental Empiricism

This comprehensive reframing of Gilles Deleuze as a transcendental empiricist delves into his seminal Difference and Repetition to unearth a system that inverts the Kantian worldview. By focusing on Deleuze''s theory of the faculties, we can see how he builds a transcendental system of thought that defies the predictability of empirical experience.The place of experience in the way we understand our relation to the world, to others and to ourselves, is a central theme of modern philosophy. Deleuze''s transcendental empiricism points to an unexplored direction in this major philosophical preoccupation. It is a road not taken that, against the tide of his times, rejected the possibility of an immediate contact with being and embraced the possibility of reaching a ''real'' that lay beneath many layers of mediation. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Deleuze neither subscribed to a specific philosophical school nor did he try to establish one. This new understanding of him as a transcendental empiricist not only helps to situate his work in the constellation of twentieth century French philosophers but also helps us to understand a philosopher for whom difference and heterogeneity were central to his own philosophical corpus.>

Product details

• Authors: Dror Yinon
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 20.02.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781350450608
• ISBN: 978-1-350-45060-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Social, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Empiricism, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -