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November 5, 2005
How about this: A return to a conception of philosophy that thinks the ontology implicit in science.
This book can be read as a call to arms for the future of philosophy, as a critique of the history of metaphysics, and as an exposition of an ontology grounded in difference. While each of these aspects has its antecedent in twentieth century philosophy, de Beistegui’s project is distinctive in many respects. One of the great merits of the book is the clarity with which de Beistegui lays out the nature and aim of his project. In the sections of the book that outline his theoretical framework, de Beistegui writes in a straightforward and jargon-free manner, allowing the reader to readily grasp the targets of the project. This said, the book is by no means easy to digest, for these programmatic sections account for a small fraction of the book’s pages. Better than half of the book consists of close readings of portions of Martin Heidegger’ Contributions to Philosophy and Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition. These readings are dense and challenging---not meant to serve as introductions to either thinker. Along with these sections on Heidegger and Deleuze, de Beistegui offers a reconstruction of the history of the metaphysics of substance from Parmenides to Merleau-Ponty, with special
emphasis on Aristotle and Hegel. There is also a chapter on the ontological implications of contemporary science.
The book is Miguel de Beistegui, Truth and Genesis: Philosophy as Differential Ontology. The review is by Mathew S Linck and he firmly locates Deleuze within this metaphysical tradition int he sense of transgressing it.
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but does he deal with co-substantiation in the construction of difference? probably not, but i think realizing the problems of substance by thinking about cosubstantiaiton is one of the reasons that deleuze moves away from substance, no?