Summary
Charles Peguy: About Bergson
In his famous Abecedary [...] Gilles Deleuze stated, speaking of style, that no one has ever written and will never write like Péguy: "He makes the sentence grow out of the middle... he writes with the help of inserts, each time adding something in the middle of a repeated sentence that spices up another insert and thus makes the sentences branch out from themselves." Just before that, he declared him "one of the greatest stylists of the French language" and a great artist, "who, like every artist, was completely crazy." And in several other places, Deleuze exalts Péguy as a writer and philosopher. So in the work he wrote with Félix Guattari What is philosophy? (1991) claims that Péguy "succeeded in inventing an entire language, and one of the most pathological and aesthetic imaginable", and in his great metaphysical treatise Différence et répétition of 1968 he places him side by side with Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. But the person who most connected Deleuze with Péguy, whose philosophy was of central importance for both, is undoubtedly Bergson.
(From the Afterword by Marko Gregorić)
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