MJESTO SUSRETA IZMEĐU DELEUZEA I HUSSERLA? O (BEZ)LIČNOSTI TRANSCENDENTALNOG
A MEETING PLACE BETWEEN DELEUZE AND HUSSERL? ON THE NOTION OF THE (IM)PERSONALITY OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL

Summary/Abstract: At the very beginning of his Vienna Lecture, Husserl speaks of the opposition between scientific medicine, and what he calls „the lore of the so-called nature cure“, clearly favouring the former. He sees philosophy as inherently opposed to naïve empiricism or naturalism, and, qua intentional phenomenology, directed at attaining the spirit as „a field of systematic experience and science.“ Deleuze, on the other hand, conceives philosophy as a sort of „a general dermatology or art of surfaces.“ This formulation seems to echo Deleuze’s famous concept of the plane of immanence, and would, therefore, seem to be the exact antithesis of a Husserlian conception of science which rests on a priori concepts and ideal truths. However, I consider that this simplistic interpretation would not only be wrong, but also falsifying and misrepresentative in respect to both Husserl’s late genetic phenomenology and Deleuze’s understanding of what he himself calls transcendental empiricism, or radical empiricism. By primarily focusing on Deleuze’s The Logic of Sense, as well as on a selection of Husserl’s later texts, I will try to find the common ground between them in the notion of the transcendental field, which, in order for this argumentation to work, needs to be shown as essentially impersonal. I argue that it is already in Husserl that we can find a reasonable case for an impersonal transcendental field.

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