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This chapter recovers the work of the preceding several chapters to demonstrate my attention to structure and procedure as key components of both Badiou's and Deleuze's ontological multiplicity. I discuss the prospects for "other lineages' in which to take up this investigation, including the discussions in Chapter  5 concerning Badiou's relationships to Heidegger and Kant. Knox Peden (Spinoza Contra Phenomenology: French Rationalism from Cavaillès to Deleuze, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2014) uses an entanglement with Heidegger to propose ways in which Deleuze's alternative reinforces his deep Spinozist commitments; this recognition extends the frontier of the Badiou-Deleuze engagement beyond the boundary I identify in Kant's notion of the manifold. I conclude by addressing the critique of multiplicity in Badiou's review of Deleuze's The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque. This engagement offers an opportunity to consider the foundation of ontological inquiry not in multiplicity, but the decision or commitment to dissolution that warrants its deployment.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-76837-3_6

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