The Interesting, the Remarkable, the Unusual

Deleuze's Grand Style

Bibliographic Data

ID19536147
AuthorsDorothea Olkowski (University of Colorado System, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume5
Issue1
Pages118-139
Publication date2011-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDeleuze Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1750-2241 • E-ISSN: 1755-1684
PublisherEdinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3366/dls.2011.0011
OpenAlexW1972799550
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited5

Gilles Deleuze takes up the challenge to create a philosophy of the interesting, the remarkable and the unusual. He does this in what Alain Badiou calls the ‘Grand Style’, the style of Descartes, Spinoza and Kant whose philosophies arise in relation to developments in the natural sciences and mathematics. Grounding himself in the molar-molecular pair, Deleuze sets out a new image of thought. He conceptualises an immanent but still relatively closed, deterministic, atomistic and reversible system that is not immediately reduced to entropic equilibrium because its processes take place on the molecular level, at speeds which he hypothesises are beyond the speed of light. He postulates a manifold, a sphere of immanence that is the entire universe and not merely the Earth or our solar system. It is a system governed by sensitivity to initial starting points and unstable boundaries, thus although it is chaotic as well as probabilistic, it remains a mathematically formal, deterministic system

Art · Epistemology · Immanence · Literature · Physics · Probabilistic logic · Theoretical physics · Computer Science · Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science

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