From: "michelle phil lewis-king" <king.lewis-AT-easynet.co.uk>
Subject: RE: dialectics: 'Can Philosophers read Deleuze?' 
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 00:05:58 -0000


Nathan asked what did I mean by beyond?.

"Deleuze says that he gets out of or beyond philosophy by means of
philosophy. Parnet asks what he means, so Deleuze says that since this will
be heard after his death, he can speak without modesty. He refers to his
(then) recent book on Leibniz, in which he insisted on the notion of "the
fold", a philosophy book on this bizarre little notion of the fold. As a
result, he received a lot of letters, some from intellectuals, and two other
letters that were quite distinct. One was from an association of paper
folders who said
they agreed completely; what Deleuze was doing, they were doing it too! Then
he received another letter in which the writer said something exactly the
same: the fold is us!

<Gilles Deleuze's ABC Primer, with Claire Parnet>
Overview prepared by Charles J. Stivale