DELEUZE, UNE ANTI-PHÉNOMÉNOLOGIE ?
In: Chiasmi International, 2012
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Deleuze played Bergson off against Merleau-Ponty, but for what reasons? What is the meaning of this anachronistic return to Bergson, against the grain of phenomenological history? There was, in Deleuze, an underground debate with phenomenology, a debate that never became explicit, but that took place on common grounds which, for him, were a question of re-appropriation: the transcendental, time, and art. On all of these subjects, Deleuze invoked Bergson’s authority against phenomenology, as if Bergson allowed us to measure anew this real field, independently from consciousness, in its quadruple dimension: immanent, ontological, cosmological, and temporal. Art and flesh will be the ultimate figures of this struggle where finitude and infinitude confront one another, and where inverted possible worlds draw themselves: a world that mirrors man and a world in which “man is absent”.