1. The Arepresentational Conception of Thinking Thought in Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze
MERLEAU-PONTY’S CRITICISM OF REPRESENTATIONAL THOUGHT
Empiricist and Intellectualist Accounts of Perception
Merleau-Ponty’s Account of Perception
Merleau-Ponty’s Account of Thought
DELEUZE’S CRITICISM OF REPRESENTATIONAL THOUGHT
Thinking Thought as the Attempt to Unravel the Sense of a Sign (First Postulate)
Thinking Thought as a Discordant Play among the Different Faculties (Second Postulate)
Art as the Privileged Domain to Unravel the Essence? (Sixth Postulate)
Thinking Thought as Learning How to Create Problems (Eighth and Seventh Postulates)
Stupidity as the Highest Finality of Thinking Thought (Fifth Postulate)
COMPARISON OF MERLEAU-PONTY’S AND DELEUZE’S CONCEPTIONS OF THOUGHT
2. Ontology in Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze
First Dimension: The Differential Nature of the Flesh
Second Dimension: The Open Nature of the Flesh
Third Dimension: The Constitutive Nature of the Flesh
DELEUZE’S DIFFERENTIAL ONTOLOGY
First Dimension: Virtual Being as a Noninternal Multiplicity
Second Dimension: “?-Being”
Third Dimension: The Constitutive Character of the Virtual
COMPARISON OF MERLEAU-PONTY’S AND DELEUZE’S ONTOLOGIES
3. Deleuze’s and Merleau-Ponty’s Transcendental Projects
DELEUZE’S TRANSCENDENTAL PROJECT
Introduction
Differences in Kant’s and Deleuze’s Approaches to the Transcendental
Differential Moments in Kant’s Transcendental Philosophy
The Spinozistic and Maimonian/Leibnizian Inspiration for Deleuze’s Transcendental Philosophy
Husserl in Deleuze’s Transcendental Philosophy
MERLEAU-PONTY’S TRANSCENDENTAL PROJECT
Introduction
Merleau-Ponty’s Immanent Interest in Husserl
The Differential Interest in Merleau-Ponty’s Criticism of Husserl
COMPARISON OF MERLEAU-PONTY’S AND DELEUZE’S TRANSCENDENTAL PROJECTS
4. Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze, Readers of Bergson
MERLEAU-PONTY’S AND DELEUZE’S BERGSONIAN UNDERSTANDINGS OF TIME
Merleau-Ponty’s Early Reading of Bergson, Seen through a Deleuzean Lens
Merleau-Ponty’s Late Reading of Bergson, Seen through a Deleuzean Lens
MERLEAU-PONTY’S AND DELEUZE’S UNDERSTANDINGS OF DEPTH
Merleau-Ponty’s Account of Depth
Deleuze’s Account of Depth
COMPARISON OF MERLEAU-PONTY’S AND DELEUZE’S CONCEPTIONS OF DEPTH AND TIME
5. Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty, Readers of Proust
THE SEARCH AS A SEARCH FOR A NON-PLATONIC TRUTH
ARTISTIC ESSENCES IN THE SEARCH
The Little Phrase
La Berma
Leibniz and Elstir
The Time of Half-Sleep
