This paper investigates the relationship between James’ radical empiricism and Deleuze’s study of the genesis of sense without a transcendental subject as necessary condition. It shows that James’ concept of pure experience changes the form of relation between mind and world. Considering how to conceptualize experience without a fixed metaphysical or transcendental subject destabilizes ontological identity, leads to a founding conceptual divergence from traditional phenomenology, and motivates Deleuze’s efforts towards transcendental empiricism. The paper reads Deleuze’s work on the genesis of sense in this context, arguing that one important result is an ontological pluralism. Such pluralism is crucial in considering how meaning can be made between and across differences and is in keeping with radical empiricism’s openness to life’s complexity.

本文考察了詹姆斯的激进经验主义与德勒兹关于没有先验主体作为必要条件的意义起源的研究之间的关系。这表明詹姆士的纯粹经验概念改变了心灵与世界的关系形式。考虑如何在没有固定的形而上学或先验主体的情况下对经验进行概念化会破坏本体论身份的稳定性，导致与传统现象学的根本性概念分歧，并激发德勒兹对先验经验主义的努力。该论文在此背景下阅读了德勒兹关于意义起源的著作，认为一个重要的结果是本体论多元主义。这种多元化对于考虑如何在差异之间和差异之间产生意义至关重要，并且与激进经验主义对生活复杂性的开放性保持一致。