How does Deleuze conceptualize "Truth"?
Hello! I'm fairly new to Deleuze and am starting to get acquainted with him little by little. But as a philosopher, what kind of task does Deleuze take upon himself? It feels as to me that he is not like the traditional philosophers in the sense that he doesn't seem to be just here to present what he thinks is true about the world.
For example, when he tries to overturn traditional metaphysics by explaining the existence of pure difference independent of the notion of unity / oneness, could it be that his philosophical statements about the world are not an appeal to some universal Truth but more so a deliberate program to shift the focus of our everyday affects from unity to difference?
Was his philosophical program of pure difference perhaps a product of his desire to explore the unexplored gap that the philosophers across history (whose systems mainly revolved around unity and oneness, explaining difference as a secondary byproduct) failed to consider, rather than pursuit of absolute truth?
So far, I am starting to find his metaphysics quite convincing, but then, what does it mean to be convinced by Deleuze anyway? Is it "agreeing with him that the world is this way" or more so an alignment of my tendency with his tendency in terms of how I want to perceive the world?
Posted Jun 3, 2026, 1:24 PM UTC