Repetition and Difference
Photo by David Heald for the Jewish Museum
Repetition and Difference
March 13 – August 16, 2015
The Jewish Museum
New York, NY
In 1968, the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze wrote his now-iconic book Difference and Repetition. The text was fundamental to the discourses of its time, offering an unprecedented analysis of representation, language, history, and capitalism. One of its important points is that in the history of philosophy, both difference and repetition have always been understood as negative, derivative qualities that only exist in relation to some unique entity. Deleuze tries to understand difference in and of itself, and repetition not as something finite, but as reinvention, an “active force producing difference.”
Objects on loan
The ANS had a total of 98 silver shekels, made in Tyre between 126–25 BCE, on loan to this exhibition. Highlights of the loan include:
Silver tetradrachm, Tyre, 121 BC – 120 BC. 1944.100.72746
Silver tetradrachm, Tyre, 107 BC – 106 BC. 1948.19.2285
Silver tetradrachm, Tyre, 121 BC – 120 BC. 1944.100.72748
Silver tetradrachm, Tyre, 111 BC – 110 BC. 1944.100.72768
Silver tetradrachm, Tyre, 126 BC – 125 BC. 1944.100.72732
