ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the difference-philosophical premises of Deleuze’s theory of event with recourse to Différence et répétition (1968) and the concept of transcendental empiricism. In the first part the relationship between Deleuze and Heidegger is discussed. For Deleuze, Heidegger’s event-thinking remains arrested by Platonism. Although Deleuze follows Heidegger’s central arguments against onto-theological metaphysics, he modifies the corresponding concept of the event according to his demand for a radicalisation of ontological immanence. Taking up Nietzsche’s thought of eternal recurrence, he determines the genetic and virtual interiors of experience as intense zones of dynamic forces. In the second part the Kantian sublime is analysed as an event phenomenon. Finally, the relationship between the actual and the virtual is explained in more detail.
