Gilles Deleuze's Philosophy of Nature

System and Method in What is Philosophy

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ID2352939
AuthorsMathias Schönher (0000-0001-8719-2161, University of Vienna Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume36
Issue7-8
Pages89-107
Publication date2019-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheory Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0263276418820954
OpenAlexW2912019722
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited14

For its elliptical style, What is Philosophy? appears to be fragmentary and inscrutable, and its reception has been correspondingly contentious. Following an intimation by Gilles Deleuze himself, this article proposes that his final book, written in collaboration with Félix Guattari, contains a philosophy of nature. To address this proposition, the article begins by outlining the comprehensive system of nature set out in What is Philosophy?, defining it as an open system in motion that conjoins philosophy with the historical preconditions and intersects it with science and art. The article then addresses the precise method whereby the philosopher as an individual subject, emerging from nature, can succeed in becoming creative - that is, in creating concepts to bring forth new events. Finally, the brain turns out to be the pivot between the system and this method. What is Philosophy? thus presents an account of the brain based on a theory of the three specific planes of philosophy, science and art, and uses it to expand upon the idea of assemblage for a philosophy of nature

20th-century philosophy · Art · Contemporary philosophy · Epistemology · Literature · Metaphysics · Nature · Philosophy of biology · Philosophy of computer science · Philosophy of mind · Philosophy of science · Proposition · Style (visual arts · Subject (documents · Western philosophy · Computer Science · Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis · Philosophy

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