Deleuze, Hume, Leibniz

Deleuze's later appreciation of Leibniz re-affirms what his book on Hume tries to accomplish--a subordination of Hume's Atomism to his Associationism, culminating in Hume's apparent espousal of Leibniz "pre-established harmony" principle. However, the concomitant reduction of Externalism to Internalism is not as eccentric as it might seem. While the atoms of Hume's concept of Experience are mutually external, that they are 'impressions', and not, say, Bergsonian images, or Sartreian phenomena, marks them as already experientially internal. So, because, for Hume, experience is constituted by the internal association of these internal elements, it begins as, and remains as, windowless as Leibniz' Monads.