What Is Grounding?

<p><em>What is Grounding?</em> is Gilles Deleuze’s first seminar, and is distinguished in that, rather than taking an author from behind and giving him a child that would be his offspring, yet monstrous, the work focuses instead on the question of grounding, defined both as the sufficient reason for concrete entities, and the point of departure for philosophy, in translator Arjen Kleinherenbrink’s words. Rather than the foregrounding method, in which human subjective experience remains primary, here Deleuze affirms the centrality of a system, of things and the relations between things.</p>