The Art of the Third Repetition. The Issue of Efectivity in Gilles Deleuze's Différence et Répétition

Abstract

This essay consists in a re-interpretation of Deleuze's book Différence et répétition. We read this book under the perspective of an interrogation in the question of effectiveness. We argue that, in the conceptual patchwork of this work, this question arises during the exploration of the repetition's thematic, on a third level. On this third level, we also show that Deleuze thinks effectiveness under a paradigm which oscillates between the divine and the artistic. After this brief incursion, we pronounce some considerations about the general sens of Deleuze's philosophical itinerary.