The non-philosophy of Gilles Deleuze Gregg Lambert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lambert, Gregg, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York Continuum 2002.

Language Note:

English

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"

Contents:

Preface: On the art of commentary

Part I: On the image of though from Leibniz to Borges ("time of its hinges")

1. Philosophy and "non-philosophy"

2. How time places truth in crisis

3. How the problem of judgement

4. The paradox of concepts

Part II: On the (baroque) line

5. "The mind-body problem" and the art of cryptography

6. The riddle of the flesh (the "fuscum subnigrum")

7. On God (the "place vide")

Part III: On the powers of the false

8. The baroque detective: Borges as precursor

9. How the true world became a fable

10. Artaud's problem and ours: belief in the world as it is

11. On the uses (and abuses) of literature for life

Conclusion: On the art of creating concepts

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [168]-170) and index

ISBN:

9786611298579

9781472547682

1472547683

9781281298577

1281298573

9781847143631

1847143636

OCLC:

268793876