This paper argues that Deleuze is best understood as a highly unorthodox member of the hermeneutic tradition. Here, I understand the term hermeneutics in a broad sense, which includes the mainstream tradition of hermeneutics as well as the more radical branch of hermeneutics described by Ricoeur as a school of “suspicion.” More specifically, in this paper I seek to outline how Deleuze, on one hand, is influenced by Heidegger’s analysis of existential temporality in Sein und Zeit (1927), and, on the other hand, how he differs from Heidegger’s analysis of temporality. The outcome is Deleuze’s unique “hermeneutics of becoming.”