For a critique of Difference

Abstract

This paper analyses the concept of Difference in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. In this regard, we argue that the immanence-transcendence dichotomy plays a fundamental role in the articulation of this proposal. While a plane of immanent composition does not enter a negative Hegelian dialectic to a plane of transcendent organization, the primacy of first plane is evident in the conceptualization of difference. Thus, we analyse the tensions generated by this approach with regard to the deployment of difference as sufficient reason in an immanent plane, which will lead to problematize this concept from a different plane; namely, an imminent plane that emerges silently in the last work of Gilles Deleuze.