{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Difference and Givenness","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/difference-and-givenness","description":"From one end of his philosophical work to the other, Gilles Deleuze consistently described his position as a transcendental empiricism. But just what is transcendental about Deleuze\u0026#39;s transcendental empiricism? And how does his position fit with the traditional empiricism articulated by Hume? In Difference and Givenness, Levi Bryant addresses these long-neglected questions so critical to an understanding of Deleuze\u0026#39;s thinking. Through a close examination of Deleuze\u0026#39;s independent work--focusing especially on Difference and Repetition--as well as his engagement with thinkers such as Kant, Maimon, Bergson, and Simondon, Bryant sets out to unearth Deleuze\u0026#39;s transcendental empiricism and to show how it differs from transcendental idealism, absolute idealism, and traditional empiricism. What emerges from these efforts is a metaphysics that strives to articulate the conditions for real existence, capable of accounting for the individual itself without falling into conceptual or essentialist abstraction. In Bryant\u0026#39;s analysis, Deleuze\u0026#39;s metaphysics articulates an account of being as process or creative individuation based on difference, as well as a challenging critique--and explanation--of essentialist substance ontologies. A clear and powerful discussion of how Deleuze\u0026#39;s project relates to two of the most influential strains in the history of philosophy, this book will prove essential to anyone seeking to understand Deleuze\u0026#39;s thought and its specific contribution to metaphysics and epistemology.","author_name":"Levi R. Bryant","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/levi-r-bryant","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/external_data/60336559/fb9e7d3adc44a50a455874f2cbb551b6b0c291bb.jpeg","thumbnail_width":53,"thumbnail_height":80}