Questions tagged [deleuze]
Gilles Deleuze was a French philosopher who wrote influentially about a wide variety of subjects. Many of his most important questions and themes were grounded in aesthetic investigations; his body of work includes two books on film, a book on painting (the study of Bacon,) and extensive references to novels and poetry (perhaps in his collaborations with Felix Guattari; in particular see their text on Kafka.)
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Position on postmodern philosophy in modern society
Let's say, there's some author. Baudrillard or Deleuze or whatever. A lot of people read them. Some of them more or less can understand what they write about.
And there's a university system that ...
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help with understanding Deleuze's argument on "difference first, identity second"
if i'm not mistaken, deleuze says you only know about "apple" because you know apple is not an orange, is not a tea, is not justice, is not rock,...
so by differentiating "apple" ...
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A confliction on Univocity of Being by Deleuze between DR and LS
In Logic of Sense, Deleuze asserted:
Neither active or passive, univocal being is neutral.
But in Difference and Repetition,(LS,180) he puts advance of spinoza than Scotus as:
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Memory vs. Repetition in Deleuze
In the introduction of Difference and Repetition, Deleuze seems to contrast repetition with memory. How does this really cash out? Does this mean Deleuze is making the claim that memory is a kind of ...
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Is actual always actualized from virtual in Deleuze's philosophy of virtuality?
In Deleuze's essay "The Actual and the Virtual," he discusses his concept of actual and virtual. In particular, he writes about Leibniz's view that force is virtual until it is actualized in ...
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What is the justification for Deleuze's 3rd synthesis of time?
In Difference and Repitition by Deleuze, he comes up with 3 syntheses of time. The first being habitus, which is the conditioning of actual experience through pre-existing material patterns for the ...
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Is Deleuze an Intuitionist?
I am reading Difference and Repitition currently by Deleuze. In it he describes his metaphysics as subverting identity, and instead replacing how people could process the world as an endless series of ...
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Prerequisites for Deleuze's "Difference and Repetition
Deleuze's Difference and Repetition can be considered hard to decipher, especially for layman. What prior knowledge and books are required/recommended before studying Difference and Repetition?
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What is the relationship between categorization and structuralism? [closed]
I have a couple questions:
Does the act of categorization or classification always reflect a structuralist mind?
Like wise, does the act of de-categorization (or re-categorization) reflect a post-...
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How is the 'central fiction' of Zionism to be understood politically?
Deleuze in his essay, The Grandeur of Arafat, writes:
Zionism, then the state of Israel, will demand that the Palestinians recognise its right. But the State of Israel will never speak of ...
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Why is post-modernism so often equated to Relativism, are there any responses in postmodern philosophy that challenges this?
I am refering to critiques of postmodernism that are presented here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/postmodernism-didnt-cause-trump-it-explains-him/2018/08/30/0939f7c4-9b12-11e8-843b-...
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What is the difference between Subaltern and any other oppressed group?
This is in the context of deconstructionist Marxist Gayatri Spivak's reply to Foucualt and Deleuze and defense of Marx in her famous work Can The Subaltern Speak ?
Are the subaltern just uneducated ...
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Is Deleuze saying that the "virtual" generates beauty and lies outside affect?
This article says
All this is most fully worked out in Difference and
Repetition(1994). What Deleuze calls the virtual is the there posed as
the transcendental condition of all ...
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What is the philosophical significance of Deleuze's Difference and Repetition today?
What is the philosophical significance of Deleuze's Difference and Repetition today? What do contemporary philosophers think of it? I'm interested in reading it, and I have read little philosophy for ...
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What is autonomy in art, where does it come from?
What is autonomy in recent art, where does it come from?
I've encountered the concept in contemporary literary criticism, but recall little beyond it being prized by contemporary modernists, it ...
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