September 30, 2007
The first of the critical works on Deleuze was Alain Badiou's Deleuze: The Clamor of Being [Minnesota, 2000]). Badiou concentrated on the Deleuze of Difference and Repetition and Logic of Sense and he argued that Deleuze is not so much a philosopher of the multiple as of the One.
Whence the book's subtitle, which refers to Deleuze's reading of the tradition of univocity in metaphysics: "A single and same voice for the whole thousand-voiced multiple, a single and same Ocean for all the drops, a single clamour of Being for all beings" (Difference and Repetition). The singular logic of Being resides beneath Deleuze's multiple interests and vocabularies.
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