The Renaissance in Deleuze's thought

Abstract

The aim of this text is to trace Deleuze’s assimilation of some fundamental traits of Renaissance philosophy. In this regard, issues like the critique of the metaphysics of transcendence, the revision of the relations between the figures of the One and the Many, the philosophical significance of the Christian Verb, the alchemical opus, the genesis of the notion of immanence, the characterization of the theory of intuition, the political repercus­sions of pantheism, all of them vital in Deleuze’s thought, are clarified from the perspective of this author’s own reading of Renaissance as a crucial moment, that holds essential problems and concepts that animate Deleuze’s very phi­losophy.