T 3/12 Difference and Repetition 258-259, 276-280; “A Philosophical Concept …”; selections from A Thousand Plateaus and The Logic of Sense; What is Philosophy? 210-213, recommended 16-34

Topics: Subjectivity, singularity and individuation, the concept

1. What is Deleuze’s stance toward the subject in What is Philosophy? and “A Philosophical Concept …”? How is the notion of “impersonal individuations and preindividual singularities” related to Deleuze’s claim that the self is fractured?

2. How is Deleuze’s notion of the concept (also translated as ‘idea’) related to the virtual, and how dies this distinguish it from the traditional notion of the concept?

3. What is the basic difference between the traditional model of thought or development – the tree – and the model Deleuze proposes – the rhizome?