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The problem of the image of thought occurs at important moments within Deleuze’s works, yet it is not always at the forefront of his ideas. In Negotiations, Deleuze indicates that Difference and Repetition ‘is really about the nature of the postulates of the image of thought’, and that he ‘comes back to it in Proust and Signs, because Proust confronts the Greek image with all the power of signs’.1 The chronology is somewhat distorted in these comments: the concept, in fact, is first mentioned in Nietzsche et la Philosophie (1962), then again in the shorter first edition of Proust and Signs, Proust et les Signes (1964), before appearing in Difference et Repetition (1968). Yet the concept is more fully developed in Difference and Repetition and Proust and Signs, which both have chapters entitled ‘The Image of Thought’.
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Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations, 1972–1990, tr. Martin Joughin (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995), p. 149.
See Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy, tr. Hugh Tomlinson (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983), pp. 103–10.
Plato, The Collected Dialogues, including the Letters, ed. Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), p. 755.
Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, tr. Paul Patton (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), pp. 142–3.
See Gilles Deleuze, Proust and Signs, tr. Richard Howard (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000), pp. 94–101.
See Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, tr. Tom Conley (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), pp. 61–3.
Gilles Deleuze, Cinema II: The Time-Image, tr. Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989), p. 303.
G.W. Leibniz, ‘Principles of Nature and of Grace. 1714’, tr. Mary Morris and G.H.R. Parkinson, in Philosophical Writings, ed. G.H.R. Parkinson (London: J.M. Dent, 1992), p. 195.
See G.W. Leibniz, Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God and the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil, tr. E.M. Huggard, ed. Austin Farrer (Chicago: Open Court, 1990), pp. 365–8.
See Gilles Deleuze, What is Philosophy?, tr. Hugh Tomlinson and Graham Burchell (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), pp. 155–9.
Samuel Beckett, Watt (London: John Calder, 1978), p. 132.
Gilles Deleuze, ‘The Exhausted’, tr. Anthony Uhlmann, in Essays Critical and Clinical, [all other essays] tr. Daniel W. Smith and Michael A. Greco (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), pp. 152–74.
See Gilles Deleuze, ‘The Greatest Irish Film’, in Essays Critical and Clinical, tr. Daniel W. Smith and Michael A. Greco (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), pp. 23–6.
Samuel Beckett, ‘Letter to Georges Duthuit, 9–10 March 1949’, tr. Walter Redfern, in Beckett After Beckett, ed. Anthony Uhlmann and S.E. Gontarski (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006), pp. 15–21.
Samuel Beckett, ‘Peintres de l’empêchement’, in Disjecta, ed. Ruby Cohn (London: John Calder, 1983), pp. 133–7
Samuel Beckett, ‘Recent Irish Poetry’, in Disjecta, ed. Ruby Cohn (London: John Calder, 1983), pp. 70–6.
See Anthony Uhlmann, Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 36–64.
Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (London: Jonathan Cape, 2004), pp. 323–4.
G.W. Leibniz, ‘Of an Organum or Ars Magna of Thinking’, tr. Mary Morris and G.H.R. Parkinson, in Philosophical Writings, ed. G.H.R. Parkinson (London: J.M. Dent, 1992).
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Uhlmann, A. (2009). Deleuze, Leibniz, Proust and Beckett: Thinking in Literature. In: Bryden, M., Top**, M. (eds) Beckett’s Proust/Deleuze’s Proust. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230239470_7
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