Argument
This philosophical work grounds the actual–virtual relation, syntheses of time, image of thought, and becoming. Sheets of past, peaks of present, and crystalline relations in the Cinema books acquire their deeper temporal background here.
Core question
How can difference escape the rule of identity, and how can repetition become a power that produces the new?
Argument structure
The relation between difference, repetition, and the virtual connects to the three syntheses of time. How past and present coexist and differentiate is central to this account of time. It also forms a philosophical background for crystal-images and direct temporal forms in the Cinema books.
Related concepts, chapters, and films
Original editions, translations, and access
Différence et répétition
French · Presses Universitaires de France · 1968
Original edition details- Difference and RepetitionColumbia University Press · 1994 / 1995 · Trans. Paul Patton
- 《差异与重复》华东师范大学出版社 · 2019 · Trans. 安靖；张子岳
- 《差異與重複》野人文化 · 2019 · Trans. 江薦新；廖芊喬