Emerging from the depths: on the intensive creativity of historical events
RIS ID
73016
Abstract
This paper will explore the possibility of a creative philosophy of history in the work of Gilles Deleuze. It will do so by focusing on Deleuze’s concepts of ‘intensity’ and ‘depth’, as discussed in his seminal work Difference and Repetition. By analysing these concepts in light of several historical thinkers whom Deleuze significantly draws upon (Bergson, Péguy and Braudel), I will show in this paper how Deleuze promotes a theory of history that is not opposed to his philosophy of becoming and creativity, but in concert with it.
Publication Details
Lundy, C. A. (2010). 'Emerging from the depths: on the intensive creativity of historical events', Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 18 (1), 67-85.