Table of Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Abbreviations ix
1 Introduction 1
Why Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of time? 1
The do's and don'ts of time travel 7
The critical power of Deleuze's philosophy of time 16
2 The first synthesis of time 21
The living present 21
Synthesis and method in the first synthesis of time 30
Of pebbles and their habits 38
The passing present 45
3 The second synthesis of time 51
A time within which time passes 51
The deduction of the pure past 59
Destiny and freedom 68
How to save all the past for us? 75
4 The third synthesis of time 79
From Descartes to Kant 79
Back to Plato 84
The pure and empty form of time 86
History, repetition and the symbolic image 95
Past and present as dimensions of the future 102
Transcendental dogmatism? 106
5 Time and eternal return 113
Only difference returns and never the same 113
Eternal return and death 118
Series and eternal return 124
Disparity and difference in eternal return 130
6 Time in Logic of Sense 134
Of wounds and time 134
How much, how and where? 138
Time and the surface between depths and heights 145
From principles to acts 154
7 Conclusion: the place of film in Deleuze's philosophy of time 159
Endnotes 165
Bibliography 194
Index 203
