As the salvation of phenomena comes about by means of ideas, the presentation of ideas comes about in the medium of the empirical. For ideas present themselves not in themselves but solely in a correlation of the elements of things in the concept— indeed, as the configuration of these elements. The set of concepts operating in the presentation of an idea makes that idea manifest as a configuration of concepts. For phenomena are not incorporated in ideas. They are not contained in them. Rather, ideas are the objective virtual arrangement of phenomena, their objective interpretation.
Walter Benjamin, Origin of the German Trauerspiel p. 10
The reciprocal synthesis of differential relations as the source of the production of real objects - this is the substance of Ideas in so far as they bathe in the thought-element of qualitability. A triple genesis follows from this: that of qualities ... that of space and time ... that of concepts. [...] Ideas appear in the form of a system of ideal connections—in other words, a system of differential relations between reciprocally determined genetic elements.
Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition pp. 173-4
[i used to be fixated on what i felt was a resonance between benjamin and deleuze, especially around this talk of ideas. i never got it ironed out, but i did spiral around it for at least three years.]
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