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Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 22:26:02 -0500
Subject: Re: Deleuze the empiricist
From: "Chris Peterson" <chris212-AT-earthlink.net>


Yes, Deleuze is an empiricist!  And I do agree that it is of a 'very
particular kind', it takes on a sort of pluarist or transcendental quality
that rigoriously engages the chaotic and moving nature of reality.  Much of
what it has to do with, I believe, are conceptualizing relatations as
exterior to their terms:  no longer keeping the connections tied
intrinsically to the terms, and instead accepting the movement and dynamism
of the middle.

I think that William James would be a great source for seeing another
example of this special strain of empiricism with his notion of radical
empiricism...

chris
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>From: Stephen Arnott <sarnott-AT-metz.une.edu.au>
>To: deleuze-guattari-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: Deleuze the empiricist
>Date: Thu, Dec 3, 1998, 9:45 AM
>

>At 10:52 AM 11/30/98 -0500, Inna wrote:
>>What about Deleuze having said in Diaalogues - I consider myself an
>>empiricist hence pluralist - or smth like that?
>>
>>
>Sure but his empiricism is of a particular kind. He'd undoubtedly consider
>Spinoza an empiricist which very few others would. He calls himself a
>transcendental empiricist, in order to stress that his philosophy is
>concerned with the necessary conditions of real experience. Univocal
>difference is such a necessary condition and in no way compromises
>plurality, rather the reverse - it ensures it.
>
>Steve
>

   

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