ABSTRACT
The concept is seized within its history, varied within the fields of its application, ramified by its consequences. It is furthermore distributed in accordance with the description of the site where it is thought and the narration of its uses. Philosophy, according to Deleuze, is not an inference, but rather a narration. Deleuze is at his most brilliant when he is devoted to repairing the apparent gaps in Leibnizian logic. The traditional objection to Leibniz is that his monadology prevents any thought of the relation. Deleuze intends to follow Leibniz in his most paradoxical undertaking: establish the monad as absolute interiority and go on to the most rigorous analysis possible of the relations of exteriority, in particular the relation between mind and body. The extreme amplitude of Deleuze's philosophic project contrasts with the modesty and accessibility of his prose. Deleuze is a great philosopher. Nature is the paradigm of this greatness.
