Sehlberg Johan. Of Affliction: The Experience of Thought in Gilles Deleuze by way of Marcel Proust

Södertörn University Biblioteket, 2020. — 235 p. — ISBN 978-91-89109-06-3The aim of the present thesis is to explicate the experience of thought corresponding to the critical undertaking characteristic of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy between Nietzsche and Philosophy and Difference and Repetition, from within the conjunction of Deleuze’s Proust and Signs and Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. The importance of Proust for the development of Deleuze’s two major themes at the time, the overturning of Platonism and transcendental empiricism, has generally not been sufficiently recognised and investigated in Deleuze scholarship. This thesis is written in response to this disregard. To this end it seeks to develop the positive side of Deleuze’s critical destruction of the “image of thought” insofar as this aspect is most elaborately and concretely expressed in relation to Proust.