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From one end of his philosophical work to the other, Gilles Deleuze consistently described his position as a transcendental empiricism. But just what is transcendental about Deleuze's transcendental empiricism? And how does his position fit with the traditional empiricism articulated by Hume? In 'Difference and Givenness', Levi Bryant addresses these long-neglected questions so critical to an understanding of Deleuze's thinking. Through a close examination of Deleuze's independent work--focusing especially on 'Difference and Repetition--'as well as his engagement with thinkers such as Kant, Mai;mon, Bergson, and Simondon, Bryant sets out to unearth Deleuze's transcendental empiricism and to show how it differs from transcendental idealism, absolute idealism, and traditional empiricism. What emerges from these efforts is a metaphysics that strives to articulate the conditions for real existence, capable of accounting for the individual itself without falling into conceptual or essentialist abstraction. In Bryant's analysis, Deleuze's metaphysics articulates an account of being as process or creative individuation based on difference, as well as a challenging critique--and explanation--of essentialist substance ontologies. A clear and powerful discussion of how Deleuze's project relates to two of the most influential strains in the history of philosophy, this book will prove essential to anyone seeking to understand Deleuze's thought and its specific contribution to metaphysics and epistemology.

Empiricism. --- Immanence (Philosophy) --- Deleuze, Gilles, --- Immanence (Philosophy). --- Empiricism --- Philosophy --- Experience --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Rationalism --- Deleuze, G. --- Delëz, Zhilʹ, --- Dūlūz, Jīl, --- دولوز، جيل --- Delezi, Jier,

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In "the democracy of objects", Levi Bryant proposes a flat ontology where objects of all types and at numerous different scales exist in dynamic interaction, irreductible to one another. Drawing on the object-oriented ontology of Graham Harman, as well as the thought of Aristotle, Deleuze, Lacan, Bhaskar, Latour, Luhmann, and the developmental systems theorists, Bryant develops a realist ontology that he calls "onticology." Objects are dynamic systems that relate to the world under conditions of operational closure ; human subjects themselves ar simply one variant of objects. In this way, Bryant proposes a break with the Kantian tradition of pholosophy.

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"This book is the ontological thesis that all objects, as Ian Bogost has so nicely put it, equally exist while they do not exist equally. The claim that all objects equally exist is the claim that no object can be treated as constructed by another object"-- Google books. In The Democracy of Objects Bryant proposes that we break with the epistemological tradition and once again initiate the project of ontology as first philosophy. Bryant develops a realist ontology, called 'onticology', which argues that being is composed entirely of objects, properties, and relations. Bryant proposes that objects are dynamic systems that relate to the world under conditions of operational closure.

Humanities. --- Metaphysics. --- Object (Philosophy)

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