From: "Ronald M. Carrier" <rcarrier-AT-suba.com> Subject: Re: Re[4]: dig, drill, deviate Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 07:07:01 -0600 (CST) Crispin Sartwell wrote: > > On Mar 19, 1996 10:15:37, '"Ronald M. Carrier" <rcarrier-AT-suba.com>' wrote: > > >It would be difficult to make sense of Deleuze's > >concept of representation except as such a positing, and a positing that > >effectively produces the identical to some extent or other. > > could someone (ronald?) give a source on this? With respect to infinite representation, Deleuze writes in _Difference_ _and_Repetition_: "Infinite representation invokes a foundation. While this foundation is not the identical itself, it is nevertheless a way of taking the principle of identity very seriously, giving it an infinite value and rendering it coextensive with the whole, and in this manner allowing it to reign over existence itself.... In all cases, however, the foundation or sufficient reason employs the infinite only to lead the identical to _exist_ in its very identity." (p. 49) With respect to the Platonic dialectic, he writes in _D&R_: "However, difference is still related to the Same or to the One through these figures. No doubt the _same_ should not be confused with the identity of the concept in general; rather, it characterizes the Idea as the thing itself. Nevertheless, to the extent that it plays the role of a true ground, it is difficult to see what its effect is if not to make that which is grounded 'identical,' to use difference in order to make the identical exist." (p. 66) Deleuze discusses finite representation on pp. 28-35 of _D&R_. Although he does not explicitly make the same point with regard to finite representation, I find it hard to believe that it is not also a production of the identical. Later... -- Ronald M. Carrier rcarrier-AT-suba.com (or: rcarrier-AT-casbah.acns.nwu.edu) Philosophy, Northwestern U. "Philosophy--I'm only in it for the money." ------------------
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