Slow Reading 1: Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition

Introduction: Repetition and Difference (pp. 1-27)

1.1: Repetition and Generality (pg. 1)
1.2: Repetition as Conduct (pp. 1-2)
1.3: Repetition and (State and Natural) Law (pp. 2-3)
1.4: Repetition and Scientific Experiment (pg. 3)
1.5: Repetition and Moral Law (pp. 3-4)
1.6: Repetition, Moral Law, and Habits (pp. 4-5)
1.7 : Repetition, Moral Law, and Comedy (pg. 5)
1.8: Repetition, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche (pp. 5-8)
1.9: Repetition, Theater, and Movement (pp. 8-10)
1.10: Repetition and Mediation (pp. 10-11)
1.11: Repetition and Concepts/Representation (Notes on Péguy and Marx) (pp. 11-12)
1.12: Repetition, Concepts, and Artificial Blockage (pg. 12)
1.13: Repetition, Natural Blockage, and Nominal Concepts (pp. 12-13)
1.14: Repetition on the Road Thus Far (pp. 1-13)
1.15: Repetition, Natural Blockage, and Concepts of Nature (pp. 13-14)
1.16: Repetition, Natural Blockage, and Concepts of Freedom (pp. 14-15)
1.17: Repetition, Repression, and the Death Drive, Part One (pp. 15-18)
1.18: Repetition, Repression, and the Death Drive, Part Two (pp. 18-19) (featuring Jacques Derrida!)
1.19: Repetition, Motifs, Causality, Signs, and Essence (pp. 19-20)
1.20: Repetition, Symmetry, Rhythm, Evolution, and Rhyme (pp. 20-22)
1.21: Repetition, Signs, Encounters, and Education (pp. 22-23)
1.22: Repetition, Difference, and Deleuze’s Charm (pp. 23-24) [featuring Virginia Woolf!]
1.23: Internal Repetition and Non-Mediated Difference (pp. 24-26)
1.24: The Essence of Repetition and the Idea of Difference (pp. 26-27)

Chapter 1: Difference in Itself

1.25: Difference and Indifference (pp. 28-29)
1.26: Taming Difference… (pg. 29) [featuring my childhood preoccupation with dinosaurs…]
1.27: Differences, Concepts, Propitious Moments, and Selective Tests (pp. 29-30)
1.28: Aristotelian Detour (Metaphysics, Book X, Part 3)
1.29: Greatest Difference, Contrariety, Specific Difference (pp. 30-31)
1.30: Effect of Specific Differences on Genera (pg. 31)
1.31: Guidebooks on Deleuze/Aristotle, Deleuze’s Nietzschean Challenge to Aristotle (pp. 31-32)
1.32: Summary of Chapter 1, Specific vs. Generic Differences, the Entrance of Being (pp. 28-33)
1.33: Generic Difference, Being, and the Analogy of Judgment (pp. 33-34)
1.34: Literary Study and Difference as Reflexive Concept (pp. 34-35)


Slow Reading 2: Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas

Chapter/Section 1

2.1: Becoming an Odd Addressee (pg. 5)
2.2: Reflecting on Difficulties (pg. 5)
2.3: Sketching the Addressee, Sketching Desire (pp. 5-6)
2.4: The Precipice Immanent to the Educated Class (pp. 6-8)

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  3. Mila Makal Avatar

    Slow Reading of Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition is simply incredible. Detailed and profound. There’s nothing that compares to it available anywhere else. I am so grateful to Prof. Hagen for this and looking forward to upcoming sections. Thank you so much.

  4. Dave Jonathan Avatar

    Definitely looking forward to more. Thanks so much for what you’ve already done.

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