File spoon-archives/deleuze-guattari.archive/deleuze-guattari_1996/d-g_Jun.96, message 182


Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 15:07:51 +0730
From: a.j.thomas-AT-latrobe.edu.au (Allan James Thomas)
Subject: Thought outside itself


Hi! This is my first ever posting, anywhere, anytime (I only just got
wired), so please be gentle with me.

        I'm looking for some help tracking down the provenance of a phrase
Deleuze uses in Cinema2 in refeence to the time image. He writes '..this
thought outside itself and this unthought within thought.' (p278 of the
Minnesota translation). This phrase is nigh on identical to the one
Emmanuel Levinas uses in the first few pages of Totality and Infinity to
describe the infinitude of the idea of infinity (sorry, no page ref.) Is
Deleuze making a discrete (ie, unacknowledged) reference to Levinas, or
does this phrase have a history that traces back even further? (My field is
cinema, not philosophy, so my reading in this area is a bit limited).

        The possibility of a resonance or connection between the two has me
intrigued, since they seem to be working in _very_ different registers.
Does anyone know of any other possible links between the two? It's possible
to devise a genealogy linking the two (Levinas-Blanchot-Foulcault-Deleuze)
but it seems rather tenuous. Any insights/comments/references on this
matter would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Allan James Thomas



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