PEDRO RODRIGUES NACCARATO

Deleuze and Badiou publically discussed their philosophical positionings between 1989 and 1992. Their disagreements revolved basically around the conceptions of multiplicity, event and subject, and were made public only in Badiou's review of Deleuze's "Le Pli. Leibniz et le Baroque" and in Deleuze's response in "O que é a filosofia?". In both texts, Leibniz is a central figure: for Badiou, that which allows to think the distance between Deleuze and himself is the way in which his cartesianism opposes to the former's leibnzianism; meanwhile Deleuze criticizes Badiou's conception of the event, which is developed in "L'être et l'événement" along with the refusal of Leibniz's system, suggesting that we replace it by the leibnizian-inspired notion of "fold". In this work, we seek to map the influence Leibniz had over the dispute between Deleuze and Badiou. In order to do so, we must turn our attention to commentators who have cemented their respective visions of the modern thinker. With this in mind, we aim to comprehend better the role played by philosophical interpretatiton in the making of Deleuze and Badious' own philosophical systems.