Abstract

The aim is to show how modernity has eliminated the negative as irreducible (referred to as the tragic) to substitute it with a negation as a driving force and dynamic principle. This negation is a relative negation that prevents the consideration of the irreducibility of the negative, and it confuses difference with the differential. However, this shift from absolute negativity to relative negativity is the consequence of Nietzsche’s decision to identify being and appearance, and to make appearances the entirety of being. Deleuze radicalizes this gesture by claiming total immanence – a dogmatic claim that no longer allows for the contemplation of the tragic