1. An earlier version of this paper appeared inMan and World, vol. 25, no. 2, 1992. I would like to thank the editors ofMan and Worldand Kluwer Academic Publishers for permission to publish this revised version in this special issue of theJournal of the British Society for Phenomenolooy.I would also like to thank Andrew Irvine, Steve Savitt and especially Constantin Boundas for comments on earlier versions of this paper. Funding for research leading to this paper was generously provided by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Post-Doctoral Fellowship.
2. Gilles Deleuze,Empirisme et subjectivité: Essai sur la nature humaine selon Hume(Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1953, second edition, 1972); translated with an introduction by Constantin V. Boundas asEmpiricism and Subjectivity: An Essay on Hume's Theory of Human Nature(New York: Columbia University Press, 1991). Further references to this work will be given parenthetically as ES; references are to the English translation unless otherwise noted, and references to the French are to the second edition. See also Deleuze's article on Hume inHistoire de la philosphie, edited by François Châtelet et al. (Paris: Hachette, 1972–73), vol. 4, 65–78.
3. Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet,Dialogues, translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam (Naw York: Columbia University Press, 1987), p. 54; hereafter cited parenthetically asD.See alsoES87.
4. See Deleuze,Différence et répétition(Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1968), pp. 21–23, 36, 41, 48 and passim; hereafter given in parentheses asDR.