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 Being