Essays on Deleuze by Daniel Smith

Author:Daniel Smith [Smith, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780748643332
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2012-05-15T05:00:00+00:00

Sufficient reason or the ground [he writes] is strangely bent: on the one hand, it leans towards what it grounds, towards the forms of representation; on the other hand, it turns and plunges into a groundlessness beyond the ground which resists all forms and cannot be represented. (DR 274–5)

In Deleuze's theory of repetition (temporal synthesis), for instance, the present plays the role of the foundation, the pure past is the ground, but the future the ungrounded or unconditioned: that is, the condition of the new.

Finally, the nature of the genesis that is at play here must therefore be understood as what Deleuze calls a static genesis (a genesis that takes place between the virtual and its actualization), and not a dynamic genesis (a historical or developmental genesis that takes place between actual terms, moving from one actual term to another).

These five themes recur in almost all of Deleuze's early writings as elaborations of the two post-Kantian demands that Deleuze appropriates from Maimon: the search for the genetic elements of real experience and the positing of a principle of difference as the fulfillment of this demand.

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