Das Denken der Banalitat: Uberschreitung als Ereignis bei Martin Heidegger und Gilles Deleuze in Bloomington, MN

The aim of the book is to dissolve the individual. Every individual must live up to the task of defining oneself. It thus becomes a thing. Thought loses its momentum and becomes banal. Yet Deleuze and Heidegger recognize an ambiguity in banality: It paralyzes thought, but once banality has become unbearable, it becomes creative by forcing individuals to transcend themselves. Thus, thought is born.