The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari :: Philosophy Philosophical Papers

The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Flix GuattariABSTRACT In academic philosophy the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari are still enured as curiosities and their importance for philosophical discussions is not recognized. In order to remedy this, I demonstrate how the truly concept of philosophy expounded by the two contributes to philosophical thinking at the end of the twentieth century while also providing a possible line of thought for the next millenium. To do this, I firstly emphasize the influence of Deleuzes thinking, while also indicating the impact Guattari had on him. This account result and then show Deleuzes attempts before Guattari to concieve of a non-dialectic philosophy of becoming. I will turn to rethink this approach given the influence of Guattari and his anti-psychoanalytic analysis of territorial processes. The result is a conception of philosophical activity as an act of becoming minor.(1) 1. ingressIn the following I would like to talk about a topic that has been treated very little in academic philosophy. The works of GILLES DELEUZE - and not to forget his co-author, FLIX GUATTARI - are still treated as curiosities and their importance for philosophical discussions is not recognized. (2) In opposition to this, I will show what the very concept of philosophy means to these two thinkers.In doing this I will start with the more theoretical backround. As many others have already I will stress the decisive influence of DELEUZES thinking, but I will also try to indicate the impact GUATTARI had on him. This account will therefore show DELEUZES attempts - before GUATTARI - to concieve of a non-dialectic philosophy of becoming. After that I will turn to the rethinking of such an approach given the influence of GUATTARI and his anti-psychoanalytic analysis of territorial processes. The publication will be the resulting conception of the philosophical activity as an act of becoming-minor.2. GILLES DELEUZE Philosophy of Differenc e - Against DialecticsGILLES DELEUZES early philosophy is dominated by the project of attaining a kind of philosophy that can be characterized best by naming its very enemy dialectics. Whether as a school of philosophy (including the leading figures in France, KOJVE and SARTRE) or as an ontological approach to the world itself, which implies - no matter if in the Hegelian or Platonic version - a fundamental dualism. (In PLATO the difference amidst the sensual and intellectual world, in HEGELS dialectics the sublation Aufhebung of real differences in the world through the synthesizing faculty of the mind qua negation).