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Dror Yinon, Deleuze and the Problem of Experience: Transcendental Empiricism, Bloomsbury, 2025, 272pp., $115.00 (hbk) ISBN 9781350450608.
Reviewed by George Webster, University of Oxford
Dror Yinon’s Deleuze and the Problem of Experience offers one of the most sustained and systematic Kantian reconstructions of Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition (1968/1994) to date. The book’s principal claim is that transcendental empiricism—the positive thesis articulated by Deleuze throughout the course of his book—must be read as emerging from a critical engagement with Kant’s transcendental idealism. On this account, Deleuze embraces the framework of transcendental philosophy but de-emphasises the notion of a transcendental subject whose categories unify and structure ordinary experience. Deleuze, in other words, regards the experiencing subject as part of experience’s structure and thus as part of the explananda rather than the explanans. Thus, he aims to describe a transcendental field, characterised by a dynamic of repetition and difference, that generates experience…
