Talk:Difference and Repetition

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Somebody upload an image please? I don't know how. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Afghan Historian (talk • contribs) 09:30, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Chapter title

271828182 and I have been to-and-froing over the section title for chapter IV. English-language translation gives "Ideas and the Synthesis of Difference." Original French is "Synthèse idéelle de la différence." 271828182 points out that there is no "and" in the original, and so offers "Ideational Synthesis of Difference" as a more accurate translation than that which appears in the published work. This may be right, I feel, but Wikipedia policy as I understand it is verifiable rather than 'true'. If there is a reliable source pointing up this discrepancy, then it would justify the difference between the article and the book--we could add in a footnote explaining precisely this point. DionysosProteus (talk) 17:26, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

James Williams, in his book on DR, uses "the ideal synthesis of difference" (pp. 139ff.). That was my original choice, before switching to the ugly "ideational" to be more precise. 271828182 (talk) 18:28, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

"Reception"?

It would be nice to have a section of the article that describes the reception / influence of this particular book. Deleuze himself writes that it is his first attempt to "practice" philosophy, and he's much better known for his later collaborations. However, the book itself is well known and cited. Can this "legacy" be summarized? Arided (talk) 20:55, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Concur. 128.62.75.46 (talk) 21:51, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

Original Research

This article reads as original work. While it's nice that someone has taken the time to summarize each chapter of the book, this is not appropriate for an encyclopedia, leastwise because these summaries can be misleading and contain highly interpretive statements unless made by scholars and published as original research. 128.62.75.46 (talk) 21:53, 13 April 2025 (UTC)