Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: A Critical Introduction and Guide

1. Introduction p1; a) Deleuze's master-work p1; b) Deleuzian principles p3; c) Virtual and actual p6; d) Difference and repetition p9; e) Passive syntheses p11; f) Dialectics p 15; g) Reading Difference and Repetition p20; 2. Outside Identity, Generality and Law p23; a) The simulacrum p 23; b) Repetition and generality p29; c) Repetition and law p32; d) Repetition and concepts p35; e) Tragedy p42; f) Freud and masks p44; g)Signs and the essence of repetition p48; 3. Difference p54; a) Difference in itself p54; b) Aristotle p58; c) Deleuze's ontology p62; d) Hegel and Leibniz p68; e) Difference as experiment and experience p74; f) Plato p79; 4. Repetition p84; a) Repetition for itself p84; b) First synthesis of time p86; c) Second synthesis of time p93; d) Third synthesis of time p98; e) Freud and passive syntheses p105; 5. Against Common Sense p111; a) The image of thought p111; b) Good will p113; c) Kant, Descartes and recognition p115; d) Representation p118; e) Error and illusion p123; f) Propositions and sense p125; g) Questions p128; h) Dialectics, problems and Ideas p130; i) Learning p134; 6. What is an Idea? P138; a) The problem of determination p138; b) Ideas as multiplicities p143; c) Necessity of Ideas p150; d) How to act p157; e) Determination and groundlessness p162; 7. What is reality? P166; a) Science and significance p166; b) Explanation p169; c) Depth and space p172; d) Intensity p179; e) The individual p186; f) Individuals and species p190; 8. Conclusion. Beyond the self p195; a) Reality p195; b) The self and the subject p200; c) Others p 205; Bibliography.

James Williams