This essay examines the relationship between William James’s radical empiricism and Gilles Deleuze’s transcendental empiricism by considering how dominant technologies of locomotion and travel in their respective historical times influenced their thinking and the style of their prose. Highlighting the imagery of trains and ground movement in James and planes and flight in Deleuze, I suggest that each constructs an empiricism that resonates with and reacts to the emerging forms of mass movement in his own time. The essay serves as an invitation to read James and Deleuze together with attention to the aesthetic qualities of their writing and as united in an ongoing project of honing philosophy to the pace of its time.

本文通过考察威廉·詹姆斯的激进经验主义与吉尔·德勒兹的先验经验主义之间的关系，考察了他们各自历史时期的主要运动和旅行技术如何影响了他们的思想和散文风格。突出詹姆斯的火车和地面运动以及德勒兹的飞机和飞行的图像，我建议每个人都构建一种经验主义，与他自己时代新兴的群众运动形式产生共鸣并做出反应。这篇文章邀请大家一起阅读詹姆斯和德勒兹，并关注他们写作的审美品质，并结合在一个正在进行的项目中，将哲学与时代的步伐相结合。