Atdtda29: Returning is being, but, 814-819

Monte Davis monte.davis at verizon.net
Sat Mar 29 11:24:44 CDT 2008


Paul Nightingale quotes:

> Repetition is truly that which disguises itself in 
> constituting itself, that which constitutes itself only by 
> disguising itself. It is not underneath the masks, but is 
> formed from one mask to another...
 
> Eternal return cannot mean the return of the Identical 
> because it presupposes a world (that of the will to power) in 
> which all previous identities have been abolished and 
> dissolved. Returning is being, but only the being of 
> becoming....

C'mon, Paul, you can't pass off this pretentious word salad as the
production of a serious philosopher or literary critic. Sarcastic parody
aside, what did Deleuze *really* write?  




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