Gilles Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism ─ From Tradition to Difference

Deleuze's readings of Hume, Spinoza, Bergson and Nietzsche respond to philosophical critiques of classical and modern empiricism. However, Deleuze's arguments against those critiques--by Kant, Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger--consolidate the philosophy of immanence that can be called 'transcendental empiricism'.

Marc Rölli offers us a detailed examination of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of transcendental empiricism. He demonstrates that Deleuze takes up and radicalises the empiricist school of thought developing a systematic alternative to the mainstreams of modern continental philosophy.

Marc Rolli is Full Professor for Philosophy at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts (Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst HGB), Germany. Having studied philosophy, comparative religion and Indian philology in Marburg and Berlin, he received his Ph.D. from Ruhr-Universitat Bochum in 2002. In the same year, he became Associate Professor of Philosophy at Technical University Darmstadt, where he obtained his Habilitation in philosophy in 2008 and worked as a Visiting Professor for theoretical philosophy between 2008 and 2011. Since 2011, he has been Full Professor at the Department of Philosophy at Fatih University in Istanbul, Turkey. Since 2013 he was head of the research focus 'Theory and Methods' at Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland.

Peter Hertz-Ohmes is Professor Emeritus of German and Humanities at SUNY Oswego. He is known mainly as a scholar and translator of Heidegger. He translated Heidegger's Unterwegs zur Sprache.