Deleuze's Difference and Repetition

Henry Somers‑Hall is Professor of Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has written extensively on Gilles Deleuze and the broader twentieth‑century French philosophical tradition. He is the author of Hegel, Deleuze and the Critique of Representation (SUNY Press, 2012), Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition (Edinburgh University Press, 2013) and Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and co‑editor (with Daniel W. Smith) of The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze (Cambridge University Press, 2012), (with Jeffrey A. Bell and James Williams) A Thousand Plateaus and Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), and (with Jeffrey A. Bell) The Deleuzian Mind (Routledge, 2025).

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Abbreviations; Part I: A Guide to the Text; Introduction: Repetition and Difference; Chapter One: Difference In Itself; Chapter Two: Repetition For Itself; Chapter Three: The Image of Thought; Chapter Four: Ideas and the Synthesis of Difference; Chapter Five: The Asymmetric Synthesis of the Sensible; The Two Prefaces; Part II: Study Aids; Glossary; Further Reading; Tips for Writing about Deleuze; Bibliography; Index.

Unless spoon-fed on Deleuze from a very young age, Difference and Repetition is not an easy book to get your head around ... A guide is fairly essential and the best one available in print is written by Henry Somers-Hall as part of the Edinburgh Philosophical Guides series.