Deleuze, Hume, Subjectivity, Activation

The concept of Subjectivity that Deleuze finds in Hume's texts determines a discrete natural entity within environing Nature. Such discreteness is not given, but must be created, a process the decisive moment of which, according to Deleuze, requires an internal "activation". As his later works reveal, he finds e. g. in Spinoza's theory, as principles of Activation, Reason and Intuition. In contrast, in part accounting for his classification of it as 'Empiricist', the principle of Activation that he finds in Hume's theory is Imagination, which invents a 'subject' and a cultural 'world' that it inhabits. Now, Deleuze's book on Hume can be appreciated as self-exemplifying--an inventive appropriation of Hume's given texts. But, if so, then the concept of Subjectivity that the book develops is not necessarily one that Hume subscribes to, or would even recognize.