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The time-image and Deleuze's transcendental experience

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In this paper I examine the meaning of Deleuze's “transcendental empiricism” by means of the kind of experience that his project opens up for us – an experience that I want to call transcendental. Primarily on the basis of his works on cinema, famously dedicated to freely investigating Bergson's thought, I argue that Deleuze's notion of the time-image, together with his search for its real and necessary conditions, consists in the liberation of experience from its Kantian limitative conditioning. I then examine both the new kind of subjectivity (the fissured ego) that emerges from this enlarged experience and the new conception of temporality (time out of joint) that subtends it. Finally, I try to bring out the concrete relations between (transcendental) experience, thought and the brain that Deleuze brings to light in his analysis of great cinema's reinvention of the relationship between time and movement.

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Moulard, V. The time-image and Deleuze's transcendental experience. Continental Philosophy Review 35, 325–345 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022687422795

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