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capable of free spontaneous agreement, without legislation, without purpose, without
predominance” (DI 58). Deleuze also puts this point in positive terms. “A faculty would never
take on a legislative and determining role were not all the faculties together in the first place
capable of this free subjective harmony” (KCP 50). It is in this sense that “the Critique of
Judgment uncovers the ground presupposed by the other two Critiques: a free agreement of the
faculties” (DI 58). We can put this in other words. In Kant’s Critical Philosophy Deleuze
distinguishes between two different interests of reason. On the one hand, reason is interested in
subjecting objects to itself. On the other hand, reason is interested in according contingently with
the productive aspect of nature which exceeds it. Deleuze argues that one of these interests is
primary. Specifically, he claims, reason is interested in subjecting objects to itself to the extent
that in the first instance it is interested in according contingently with that productive aspect of
nature which exceeds it. It is this point that Deleuze develops in Difference and Repetition. In
other words, Difference and Repetition develops the ground of Kant’s critical philosophy. The
title of the book names precisely this ground.
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