ABSTRACT
‘Doing philosophy’, according to Deleuze, is an act of creation and affirmation. In Difference and Repetition Deleuze sets himself two broad creative projects: the construction of new concepts of difference and repetition and the production of a new image of thought. Philosophy does not use metaphors or information from contemporary science or cinema; philosophy will be quite a different mode of thought after it has confronted the events of genetics and avant-garde cinema. Philosophy is one of the ways in which we have taken the infinite intensity of thought and life and measured it according to some standard, such as the ‘subject’ or ‘man’. Philosophy gives us concepts that help us to think the plane of all these singularities. In the case of Proust, Deleuze uses the concepts of ‘sign’, ‘essence’, ‘truth’ and ‘monad’ to re-create Proust’s own search for difference in itself.
