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Difference and Repetition

Difference and Repetition (French: Différence et répétition) is a 1968 book by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Originally published in France, it was translated into English by Paul Patton in 1994.

Author

Gilles Deleuze

Différence et répétition

Paul R. Patton

French

Bibliothèque de philosophie contemporaine

Difference
Representation

Presses Universitaires de France, Columbia University Press

1968

France

1994

Print (hardcover and paperback)

350 (Columbia University Press edition)

0-231-08159-6 (Columbia University Press edition)

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B2430.D453 D4513 1994b

Difference and Repetition was Deleuze's principal thesis for the Doctorat D'Etat alongside his secondary, historical thesis, Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza.


The work attempts a critique of representation. In the book, Deleuze develops concepts of difference in itself and repetition for itself, that is, concepts of difference and repetition that are logically and metaphysically prior to any concept of identity. Some commentators interpret the book as Deleuze's attempt to rewrite Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) from the viewpoint of genesis itself.[1]


It has recently been asserted that Deleuze in fact re-centered his philosophical orientation around Gabriel Tarde's thesis that repetition serves difference rather than vice versa.[2]

Erewhon § Influence and legacy

. Germinal Life: The Repetition and Difference of Deleuze. New York and London: Routledge, 1999.

Ansell-Pearson, Keith

. Difference and Givenness: Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism and the Ontology of Immanence. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2008.

Bryant, Levi R

. "Theatrum Philosophicum." Trans. Donald F. Brouchard and Sherry Simon. In Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, Vol. 2. Ed. James D. Faubion. London: Penguin, 2000. 343-368.

Foucault, Michel

Hughes, Joe. Deleuze's 'Difference and Repetition': A Reader's Guide. New York and London: Continuum, 2009.

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

Williams, James. Gilles Deleuze’s 'Difference and Repetition': A Critical Introduction and Guide. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

by John Protevi including notes on each chapter and an outline of the book.

Lecture notes