A little-known yet significant reference to Maine de Biran in Gilles Deleuze’s work

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This chapter explores a little-known reference to Maine de Biran in Gilles Deleuze’s work, with special reference to "What is Philosophy?" and “Immanence: A Life...”. Starting from Deleuze’s account according to which there is a fundamental relationship between concepts and problems, this paper examines which aspects of Biran’s philosophy Deleuze takes into particular consideration and why. After looking at Deleuze’s reading of Sartre’s "The Transcendence of the Ego", this paper discusses the constellation of authors within which Deleuze places Maine de Biran – a constellation which includes philosophers, such as Spinoza and Fichte, as well as writers such as Charles Dickens. keywords: empiricism; immanence; cenesthesia; immediate feeling of existence

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