Matthew Baker
I agree Deleuze has a different conception of time in mind, one that is (contra Kant, and as you suggest) not a transcendental category. it’s not clear to me yet what his conception of time is exactly. You’re comment reminded me, though, of something from the preface that seems relevant.
“The task of modern philosophy is to overcome the alternatives temporal/non temporal, historical/eternal and particular/universal. Following Nietzsche we discover, as more profound than time and eternity, the untimely: philosophy is neither a philosophy of history, nor a philosophy of the eternal, but untimely, always and only untimely – that is to say, “acting counter to our time and thereby acting on our time and, let us hope, for the benefit of a time to come”. Following Samuel Butler, we discover Erewhon, signifying at once the originary “nowhere” and the displaced, disguised, modified and always recreated “here and now” and quote. Neither empirical particularities nor abstract universals: a Cogito for a dissolved self.”
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Thanks.