November 16, 1995
In impoverished periods, like the present, what always occurs is a restoration of transcendence and a return to philosophy conceived as a ‘reflection on.’ It’s also a return to university philosophy. So, here’s what must be rediscovered now: philosophy as creation, not ‘reflecting on,’ but creating concepts; not seeking to discover kinds of transcendence, but making concepts function within fields of immanence.
Introduction
“Gilles Deleuze’s ‘I recall’”, Interview with Didier Eribon, Le Nouvel Observateur , 1619, 16-22 November 1995, 50-51.
Gilles Deleuze passed away from suicide on 4 November 1995. In this issue of the leftist French weekly magazine, Le Nouvel Observateur, Didier Eribon presented a series of comments from Deleuze, apparently made two year earlier, before Deleuze’s health prevented him from completing further work. These interview comments have not previously been included in texts on Deleuze.
English
See the English translation of these interview remarks below.
French
See the French translation of these interview remarks below.