In ‘Deleuze en het Zijn’, David van Putten argues that despite the fact
that Deleuze barely discusses Heidegger in his Difference and Repetition, he
ultimately addresses the same philosophical problem as Heidegger. Both
Deleuze and Heidegger try to get away from the Aristotelian system of species
and genera because it does not do justice to reality. Van Putten argues
that the point where they depart from each other is how to approach this
problem: Deleuze disagrees with Heidegger’s decision to approach it only
from the question of Bein