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

The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Flix GuattariABSTRACT In academic doctrine the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari be still treated as curiosities and their brilliance for philosophical discussions is non recognized. In order to remedy this, I demonstrate how the very concept of doctrine expounded by the two contri barelyes to philosophical thinking at the end of the twentieth century age also providing a possible line of vox populi for the next millenium. To do this, I first emphasize the influence of Deleuzes thinking, while also indicating the impact Guattari had on him. This account will therefore translate Deleuzes attempts before Guattari to concieve of a non-dialectic philosophy of becoming. I will turn to reconsideration this approach given over the influence of Guattari and his anti-psychoanalytic analysis of territorial processes. The result is a figure of philosophical activity as an act of becoming minor.(1) 1. IntroductionIn the following I would like to talk about a issue 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 exhibit 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 charter 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 outcome will be the resulting conception of the philosophical activity as an act of becoming-minor.2. GILLES DELEUZE Philosophy of Difference - Against DialecticsGILLES DELEUZES archeozoic philosophy is dominated by the project of attaining a kind of philosophy that can be characterized best by naming its very opponent 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 among the sensual and intellectual world, in HEGELS dialectics the sublation Aufhebung of real differences in the world finished the synthesizing faculty of the mind qua negation).