Thinking between Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty. Judith Wambacq

Merleau-Ponty’s Account of Perception

       Merleau-Ponty’s Account of Thought

       DELEUZE’S CRITICISM OF REPRESENTATIONAL THOUGHT

       Thinking Thought as the Attempt to Unravel the Sense of a Sign (First Postulate)

       The Sense of a Sign Is Not Situated in the Object or the Subject, but in the Essence as Absolute Difference (Fourth and Third Postulates)

       Thinking Thought as a Discordant Play among the Different Faculties (Second Postulate)

       Art as the Privileged Domain to Unravel the Essence? (Sixth Postulate)

       Thinking Thought as Learning How to Create Problems (Eighth and Seventh Postulates)

       Stupidity as the Highest Finality of Thinking Thought (Fifth Postulate)

       COMPARISON OF MERLEAU-PONTY’S AND DELEUZE’S CONCEPTIONS OF THOUGHT

       2. Ontology in Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze

       MERLEAU-PONTY’S ENDO-ONTOLOGY

       First Dimension: The Differential Nature of the Flesh

       Second Dimension: The Open Nature of the Flesh

       Third Dimension: The Constitutive Nature of the Flesh

       DELEUZE’S DIFFERENTIAL ONTOLOGY

       First Dimension: Virtual Being as a Noninternal Multiplicity

       Second Dimension: “?-Being”

       Third Dimension: The Constitutive Character of the Virtual

       COMPARISON OF MERLEAU-PONTY’S AND DELEUZE’S ONTOLOGIES

       3. Deleuze’s and Merleau-Ponty’s Transcendental Projects

       DELEUZE’S TRANSCENDENTAL PROJECT

       Introduction

       Differences in Kant’s and Deleuze’s Approaches to the Transcendental

       Differential Moments in Kant’s Transcendental Philosophy

       The Spinozistic and Maimonian/Leibnizian Inspiration for Deleuze’s Transcendental Philosophy

       Husserl in Deleuze’s Transcendental Philosophy

       MERLEAU-PONTY’S TRANSCENDENTAL PROJECT

       Introduction

       Merleau-Ponty’s Immanent Interest in Husserl

       The Differential Interest in Merleau-Ponty’s Criticism of Husserl

       COMPARISON OF MERLEAU-PONTY’S AND DELEUZE’S TRANSCENDENTAL PROJECTS

       4. Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze, Readers of Bergson

       MERLEAU-PONTY’S AND DELEUZE’S BERGSONIAN UNDERSTANDINGS OF TIME

       Merleau-Ponty’s Early Reading of Bergson, Seen through a Deleuzean Lens

       Merleau-Ponty’s Late Reading of Bergson, Seen through a Deleuzean Lens

       MERLEAU-PONTY’S AND DELEUZE’S UNDERSTANDINGS OF DEPTH

       Merleau-Ponty’s Account of Depth

       Deleuze’s Account of Depth

       COMPARISON OF MERLEAU-PONTY’S AND DELEUZE’S CONCEPTIONS OF DEPTH AND TIME

       5. Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty, Readers of Proust

       THE SEARCH AS A SEARCH FOR A NON-PLATONIC TRUTH

       ARTISTIC ESSENCES IN THE SEARCH

       The Little Phrase

       La Berma

       Leibniz and Elstir

       The Time of Half-Sleep

       DIVERGENCES BETWEEN MERLEAU-PONTY’S AND DELEUZE’S READINGS OF PROUST

       6. Cézanne in Deleuze’s and Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophies of Art

       PAINTING IS NOT ABOUT REPRESENTATION

       PAINTING IS ABOUT THE EXPRESSION OF SENSATIONS

       THE CREATION OF AN ARTISTIC EXPRESSION

       The Deformation of Relations

       A Collaboration of Body and Mind

       THE NATURE OF ARTISTIC EXPRESSION

       WHAT IS EXPRESSED BY THE ARTISTIC EXPRESSION?

       COLORISM

       DELEUZE’S CRITIQUE OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL AESTHETICS

       7. Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty, Readers of Saussure

       SAUSSURE IN THE EARLY DELEUZE

       SAUSSURE IN MERLEAU-PONTY

       SAUSSURE IN DELEUZE AND GUATTARI

       COMPARISON OF MERLEAU-PONTY’S AND DELEUZE’S READINGS OF SAUSSURE

       Conclusion

       A DIFFERENT MERLEAU-PONTY AND A DIFFERENT DELEUZE

       Notes

       References

       Index

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      I would like to thank Emiliano Battista for his detailed feedback and help with the language; Filip Mattens for his useful comments on the Husserl passages; Herman Parret, Eric Schliesser, the late lamented Hugh Silverman, Bart Verschaffel, and Mauro Carbone for the opportunities