The more I read of Deleuze the more congenial I find him compared to the readings of Bataille and Klossowski. Deleuze has seen the way that Nietzsche breaks with Platonism, develops a metaphysics of becoming in the form of will to power and places an importance on the body.
I'm comfortable with it because Deleuze is keenly aware of the Heideggerian emphasis on ontology in Nietzsche and radicalizes it through life striving to preserve and enhance itself through connecting with other bodies. For all Deleuze's anti Hegelianism it is desire driving the expansion of life along.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at November 5, 2004 09:51 PM | TrackBack