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March 26, 2006
In Difference and Repetition Deleuze says displaces Hegel's conception of difference as contradiction which treated identity as primary and difference as secondary. Deleuze says:
It is not difference which presupposes opposition but opposition which presupposes difference, and far from resolving difference by tracing it back to a foundation, opposition betrays and distorts it. Our claim is not only that difference in itself is not 'already contradiction ', but that it cannot be reduced or traced back to contradiction, since the latter is not more but less profound than difference. (p. 51)
So we have the primary field of differences as a point of departure for Deleuze's conception of difference. Presumably, Deleuze develops an ontology in which difference is the fundamental principle and the identity of objects is understood as something produced from the differences of which they are composed.
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Hi, I'm an italian student of philosophy. Would you like to join an international seminar-blog?
i think we could read together something by Derrida or Deleuze or Nietzsche too. If you are interesting, mail me.
Enrico Schirierabend@hotmail.it