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Single Idea 21901

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy ]

Full Idea

'Difference' is a term which Deleuze uses to refer to that which eludes capture.

Gist of Idea

'Difference' refers to that which eludes capture

Source

report of Gilles Deleuze (Difference and Repetition [1968]) by Todd May - Gilles Deleuze 3.03

Book Ref

May,Todd: 'Gilles Deleuze' [CUP 2006], p.82

A Reaction

Presumably its ancestor is Kant's noumenon. This is one of his concepts used to 'palpate' our ossified conceptual scheme.

The 5 ideas from 'Difference and Repetition'

21901 'Difference' refers to that which eludes capture [Deleuze, by May]
21908 Ontology can be continual creation, not to know being, but to probe the unknowable [Deleuze]
21903 Ontology does not tell what there is; it is just a strange adventure [Deleuze, by May]
21904 Being is a problem to be engaged, not solved, and needs a new mode of thinking [Deleuze, by May]
21902 'Being' is univocal, but its subject matter is actually 'difference' [Deleuze]