A British scholar of philosophy explains how Gilles Deleuze challenged Kant's unity of apperception and the phenomenological account of time, and offers an account of his theory of the pure Event using detailed examples from Hamlet and Oedipus and Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal return. He also shows how Freud's unconscious mechanisms synthesize time. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)