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\nerenRepetitronDiferenceRepe  \nDifference and Repetition  \nGilles Deleuze  \nTranslated by Paul Patton  \nSince its publication in 1968,Difference and Repetition,a brilliant expositionof the critique of identity,has come to be considered a contemporary classic inphilosophy and one of Deleuze's most important works.The text follows thedevelopment of two central concepts,those of pure difference and complexrepetition,and shows how the two concepts are related,difference implyingdivergence and decentring,repetition being associated with displacement anddisguising.The work moves deftly between Hegel,Kierkegaard,Freud,Althusser and Nietzsche to establish a fundamental critique of Western meta-physics,and has been a central text in initiating the shift in French thought,away from Hegel and Marx,towards Nietzsche and Freud.Difference andRepetition has become fundamental to the work of literary critics and philoso-phers alike,and this translation has been long awaited.  \nContents  \nTranslator's Preface/Preface to the English Edition/Preface/Introduction:Repetition and Difference/Difference in Itself/Repetition for Itself/TheImage of Thought/Ideas and the Synthesis of Difference/AsymmetricalSynthesis of the Sensible /Conclusion/Notes /Bibliography /Index  \nThe Author  \nThe author is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris.His other workspublished by Athlone include Nietzsche and Philosophy(1983),Kant's CriticalPhilosophy(1984),CinemaI(1986),Cinema II(1989),Logic of Sense(1990)and The Fold(1992).  \nCover design by Mark Hammer  \nISBN 0485121026 pb  \nGilles Deleuze  \n# Difference and Repetition\n\nTranslated byPaul Patton  \nFirst published in Great Britain 1994 byThe Athlone Press1 Park Drive,London NW117SG  \nReprinted 1997  \nFirst published in France 1968 byPresses Universitaires de France,Parisas Différence et Répétition  \n◎1968,Presses Universitaires de FranceEnglish translation 1994 The Athlone Press  \n# Publisher's Note\n\nThe publishers wish to record their thanks to the French Ministry ofCulture for a grant towards the cost of translation.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication DataA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library  \nISBN 0485113600 hb0485121026 pb  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,storedin a retrieval system,or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic,mechanical,photocopying or otherwise,without priorpermission in writing from the publisher.  \nPrinted and bound in the United States of America  \nContents  \nTranslator's Preface xi  \nPreface to the English Edition xvPreface xix  \nINTRODUCTION:REPETITION AND DIFFERENCE 1  \nRepetition and generality:first distinction from the point of view ofconduct —The two orders of generality:resemblance and equality —Second distinction,from the point of view of law—Repetition,law ofnature and moral law—The programme of a philosophy of repetitionaccording to Kierkegaard,Nietzsche and Peguy—True movement,theatreand representation—Repetition and generality:third distinction from thepoint of view of concepts —The comprehension of concepts and thephenomenon of 'blockage’—The three cases of 'natural blockage'andrepetition:nominal concepts,concepts of nature and concepts of freedom—Repetition is not explained by the identity of the concept,any morethan it is by a purely negative condition—The functions of the 'deathinstinct':repetition in its relation to difference and as requiring a positiveprinciple.(The example of concepts of freedom)—The two repetitions:bymeans of the identity of the concept and a negative condition,and bymeans of difference and excess in the Idea.(Examples of natural andnominal concepts)一The bare and the disguised in repetition —Conceptual difference and difference without concept—But the concept ofdifference (Idea)cannot be reduced to a conceptual difference,any morethan the positive essence of 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