Title: Deleuze on Habit and Time; or, How to Get, and How Not to Get, from Hume to Bergson
Abstract: The first of what Gillles Deleuze's (1968) Difference and Repetition presents as three ‘syntheses of time’ brings into relation the notions of time and habit in a bold and interesting manner: the principle of habit, Deleuze claims, is time as the ‘living present’, time as something other than a series of instants. The idea that adequate reflection on habit requires critique of linear conceptions of time as composed of a series of instants is not without precedent in the history of French philosophy, however, and this chapter shows how it features in the work of nineteenth-century French thinkers that Deleuze does not cite. Returning to these sources, I argue, allows us to see that Deleuze's approach is flawed, and that this flaw threatens to undermine his philosophical project as a whole in Difference and Repetition.
Publication Year: 2022
Publication Date: 2022-07-14
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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