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Lundy, Craig (2024) “Virtual encounters: the making and manifestations of Deleuze’s Bergsonism”. In: The Deleuzian mind. Routledge, London. (In Press)
Introduction:
It is common for the influence of Henri Bergson on Gilles Deleuze to be explored in reverse, with readers starting from a mature Deleuzian text and then proceeding back to Deleuze’s book on Bergson, after which some may carry on to study Deleuze’s earlier essays on Bergson. This direction of travel means that Deleuze’s publications on Bergson are often read in the light of his mature work. This anachronistic approach can obscure the germination of Deleuze’s thinking, and in particular its sequence. For example, Bergsonism is the fifth of Deleuze’s books, published 4 years after his book on Nietzsche and only 2 years before Difference and Repetition. From this one might surmise that Deleuze’s encounter with Bergson happens after and is influenced by his reading of Nietzsche (and Kant and Proust), and that this encounter happened not long before the creation of Difference and Repetition. But as Deleuze tells us in his ‘Letter to a Harsh Critic’, he read Nietzsche “only later” after his engagement with Bergson (N 6). The publication date of Deleuze’s book on Bergson is therefore somewhat misleading, for the main features of Deleuze’s encounter with Bergson were in fact formulated much earlier.
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