The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze

by Lambert, Gregg

• ISBN13: 9780826459565
• ISBN10: 0826459560
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-27
• Publisher: Athlone Pr

Summary

The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze takes up Deleuze's most powerful argument on the task of contemporary philosophy in the West. Deleuze argues that it is only through a creative engagement with the forms of non-philosophy--notably modern art, literature and cinema--that philosophy can hope to attain the conceptual resources to restore the broken links of perception, language and emotion. In short, this is the only future for philosophy if it is to repair its fragile relationship to immanence to the world as it is.A sequence of dazzling essays analyze Deleuze's investigations into the modern arts. Particular attention is paid to Deleuze's exploration of Liebniz in relation to modern painting and of Borges to an understanding of the relationship between philosophy, literature and language. By illustrating Deleuze's own approach to the arts, and to modern literature in particular, the book demonstrates the critical significance of Deleuze's call for a future philosophy defined as an "art of inventing concepts.">

Table of Contents

List of figures	vi
Acknowledgements	vii
Abbreviations	viii
Preface On the art of commentary	ix
Part One On the image of thought from Leibniz to Borges (`Time off its hinges')
Philosophy and `non-philosophy'	3	(8)
How time places truth in crisis	11	(8)
The problem of judgement	19	(9)
The paradox of concepts	28	(13)
Part Two On the (baroque) line: an exposition of The Fold
`The mind-body problem' and the art of `cryptography'	41	(11)
The riddle of the flesh and the `fuscum subnigrum'	52	(9)
On God, or the `place vide'	61	(12)
Part Three On the powers of the false
The baroque detective: Borges as precursor	73	(17)
How the true world finally became a fable	90	(24)
Artaud's problem and ours: belief in the world as it is	114	(18)
The uses (and abuses) of literature for life	132	(20)
Conclusion On the art of creating concepts	152	(7)
Notes	159	(9)
Bibliography	168	(3)
Index	171