Gilles Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism

Prof. Dr. Marc Rölli is Full Professor for Philosophy at the Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst HGB), Germany. Having studied philosophy, comparative religion and Indian philology in Marburg and Berlin, he received his Ph.D. from Ruhr-Universität Bochum in 2002. In the same year, he became Associate Professor of Philosophy at Technical University Darmstadt, where he obtained his Habilitation in philosophy in 2008 and worked as a Visiting Professor for theoretical philosophy between 2008 and 2011. Since 2011, he has been Full Professor at the Department of Philosophy at Fatih University in Istanbul, Turkey. Since 2013 he was head of the research focus “Theory and Methods” at Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland. Peter Hertz-Ohmes is Professor Emeritus of German and Humanities at SUNY Oswego. He is known mainly as a scholar and translator of Heidegger. He translated Heidegger’s Unterwegs zur Sprache.

• Translator’s NoteAuthor’s ForewordIntroduction: Can Empiricism have a Transcendental Aspect?Part I: Empiricism / Transcendentalism1. Hume’s Logic of External Relations2. The Ambiguity of Kantian Thought3. Kant’s Transcendental Critique of Classical EmpiricismPart II: From Phenomenon to Event4. Husserl’s Concept of Passive Synthesis5. Heidegger’s Metaphysics of FinitudePart III: Deleuze’s Transcendental Empiricism6. The Paradoxical Nature of Difference7. Virtuality of Concepts8. Subjectivity and ImmanenceConclusion: Where do we go from here? Lines of FlightBibliographyShort biographies of Author and TranslatorIndex

Marc Rölli offers not merely a foundational and original account of the work of Gilles Deleuze. With his reconstruction of Deleuze’s 'transcendental empiricism,' he continues – with and beyond Deleuze – one of the grandest adventures in recent philosophy: establishing the source, the power, and the radicality of thinking pure immanence.