Back to the phenomena themselves: the Deleuzian mediation of phenomenological ideas
Back to the phenomena themselves: the Deleuzian mediation of phenomenological ideas

Summary/Abstract: Gilles Deleuze has an ambiguous relationship with phenomenology to say the least, which has been characterized by his commentators as everything from mutual opposition, to critical development, and to complementarity or even full compatibility. Within the French philosopher’s own oeuvre, the different strands of 20th century phenomenology play an important, if not immediately evident, role, offering both the conceptual and thematic starting ground for a good deal of Deleuze’s own philosophy, which, characterized under the heading of “transcendental empiricism”,resonates a good deal with the original project of phenomenology. In this text, I aim to show how Deleuze’s reading of phenomenologists not only shaped his own philosophy,but also informed the shape that metaphysics would more recently take, and how current metaphysicians in the continental tradition end up engaging with phenomenology through the mediation of Deleuzian criticisms and conceptual loans.He will be shown to hold an important role as mediator, not only for the transmission of phenomenological ideas outside of phenomenology, but also for providing the perspective with which post-Deleuzian thinkers return to and read phenomenological philosophers.

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