Illicit Continuities: The Riemannian Monstrosity at the Heart of Deleuze's Bergsonism

Deleuze and Guattari Studies 12 (3):336-352 (2018)
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Why would Deleuze condemn the dialectic of the One and the Many? It is not simply to replace one set of categories with another. Rather, it is to make differential topology safe for the philosophy of time. If Deleuze affirms pure multiplicity, it is to overcome Henri Bergson's prohibition upon using mathematics to inquire into time. How else could Deleuze justify his monstrous identification of ‘continuous multiplicities’ with Riemannian manifolds?

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