Deleuze, however, crawls inside a text and reinhabits it to create a deleuzeliebniz, a deleuzespinoza, etc. His metaphysical treatise difference and repetition 1968 is. Attention has been drawn to spinoza by deep ecologists such as arne naess, the norwegian philosopher. I think there is something to this thought, but we miss the precise point at which deleuze breaks with spinoza if we fail to see where his conception of univocity goes beyond spinozas own. Gilles deleuze january 18, 1925november 4, 1995 was one of the most influential and prolific french philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. This is one of two of deleuzes main works on spinoza, the other being expressionism in philosophy which is weightier.
Pdf on jan 1, 1975, cesar tejedor campomanes and others published deleuze, gilles. This initiates the ethics into a criticism of the traditional conception of the body, that is, the body as being inferior and obedient to the commands of the mind. This paper proposes to analyze deleuze s interpretation of spinoza. Cours vincennes st denis portugues 25111980 sur spinoza. Today we pause in our work on continuous variation to return temporarily, for one session, to the history of philosophy, on a. Spinoza fut lun des plus grands penseurs, car il appliquait une phil. Spinozas intellectual power, which emerged shortly after 1656 in his treatise on the emendation of the intellect, must have had a long incubation.
Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle. Spinoza has been influential on continental authors such as deleuze, lacan, foucault, and derrida. It is highly innovative and to the point concerning the practical implications of the philosophy of spinoza. The pdf file you selected should load here if your web browser has a pdf reader plugin installed for example, a recent version of adobe acrobat reader if you would like more information about how to print, save, and work with pdfs, highwire press provides a helpful frequently asked questions about pdfs alternatively, you can download the pdf file directly to your computer. Nietzsche, spinoza, and the ethological conception of ethics. Gilles deleuze 19251995 was a french philosopher who wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. This is a series of short essays and one definition section, held together by deleuzian interpretative flair. Em vista disso, nao hesita em afirmar deleuze, spinoza e o principe dos filosofos. Spinozas theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology with a single infinite substance. Cours vincennes st denis espanol 25111980 sur spinoza. Part 1, marielle burkhalter, parts 23, vanessa soubiran. As robert hurley says in his introduction, deleuze opens us to pdf the idea that the elements of the different individuals we compose may be nonhuman within us. On this point spinoza is not original, he is going to take the word idea in the sense in which everyone has always taken it.
Uncorrected paperswallace matson 4 excellent essays on spinoza start there. Enter the text with a social, philosophical, artistic, or even scientific problem, and you might find yourself unraveling it entirely. Instead of an ontology, spinoza formulated his own ethics, defined god as a universal immanent substance and people and things as its modes and attributes. This section is taken from gilles deleuze, life of spinoza, ch 1 in deleuze, spinoza. Spinoza thinks that being reasonable, or being wise, is a problem of becoming, which changes in a singular fashion the contents of the concept of reason. Deleuze interprets the above passage as spinozas war cry deleuze 1990, p. Spinoza and explications with the technical or fo rmal use of words like mode for example properly distinguished from the impre cise informal use of the latin modus or french mode, informally rendered in english as manner, way. I find this to be some of deleuzes most engaging writing. Deleuze concludes by asking what relation one should or could have with an. Deleuze, gilles 1978 cuatro lecciones sobre kant arcis.
Politics and materialism in contemporary radical thought, london and. Deleuzes reconstruction of spinozas system as a logic of expres. Like spinoza, nietzsche gave deleuze an immanent frame into which ethics could be reworked. Deleuze on expression robert piercey department of philosophy, university of notre dame, notre dame, in 465560368, u. Gilles deleuze, known for his inquiries into desire, language, politics, and power, finds a kinship between spinoza and nietzsche. What must an idea be, in order for us to comprehend even spinozas simplest propositions. Telechargeable en pdf only in pdf accueil sommaire. Deleuze conceived of philosophy as the production of concepts, and he characterized himself as a pure metaphysician. City lights books are edited by lawrence ferlinghetti and nancy 1. Spinoza is prior to that form, and nietzsche sees beyond it. Spinozas religion of reason, as goldstein evokes it, seeks to provide man with the only form of redemption which is truly available.
Beyond structure in the work of robert smithson, gilles deleuze and felix n. Find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Spinoza, spinozas philosophy should not be represented as a moment that can be simply subsumed and sublated within the dialectical progression of the history of philosophy, as it is figured by hegel in the science of logic, but rather should be considered as providing an. For readers of a thousand plateaus, the idea that nature is expressive will come as no surprise, but seeing this in light of spinoza adds a valuable depth to it. What happens if we situated in the present read spinoza after nietzsche. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel.
He relates spinozas ethical philosophy to the writings of nietzsche, citing on the genealogy of morals 1887 and an 1881 letter to the theologian franz overbeck, 2 and blijenbergh, a grain broker who corresponded with spinoza in the first half of 1665 and questioned the ethics of his concept of evil. Deleuze believes that numerous autonomous time modes coexist and operate at different levels and with varying degrees of intensity, thus creating unexpected effects bialecki. According to the reading of spinoza that gilles deleuze presents in expressionism in philosophy. One finds in this book more than an expository text concerning the systemat of spinozas thought, but a living, breathing encounter with the ethics a road map for. No longer a matter of morality, of good or evil, ethics became what is good or bad in the service of human life. For me, this produces a curious effect of returning to history.
Deleuze small book on spinoza is more accessible than his other monographies on hume, nietzsche, bergson, kant, etc. Spinozas life and works 17 the violence of human emotional reactions and the lifethreatening danger of human greed, ambition, and bigotry. Deleuze rehabilitated many thinkers, including nietzsche. It asks us to look at ourselves with unblinking objectivity. Jul 18, 2016 deleuze s analysis is a priori radically opposed to that of althusser. Deleuze brings in nietzsche as a mediator to elaborate an approach towards ethics which privileges the body. Spinoza doesnt think at all like a rationalist, among the rationalists there is the world of reason and there are the ideas. His most popular works were the two volumes of capitalism and schizophrenia. Deleuze finds himself in the same awe as most readers of spinoza the humility in his words gives way to the beautiful composition and entwinement of deleuze himself and spinoza. His ethics is an ethology, rather than a moral science. This book, which presents spinozas main ideas in dictionary form, has as its subject the opposition between ethics and morality, and the link between ethical and ontological propositions. This course will consist mainly in a close reading and discussion of spinoza a ethics from a continental perspective. More than anything, it is defined by a simple, yet powerful gesture. Deleuze, gilles coleccion 27 libros en pdf descargar coleccion 27 libros en pdf zip deleuze, gilles deseo y placer traducido por javier sa.
What they share, on this line, is a philosophy offorces or powers that compose such forms. During march, at the request of some of you, we will also take a break to consider the problem of synthesis and the problem of time in kant. Antioedipus 1972 and a thousand plateaus 1980, both cowritten with felix guattari. That deleuze s thought is heavily indebted to spinoza is a claim that is both obvious and obscure. Pdf deleuze, spinoza, and the hermeneutics of becoming. Gilles deleuze s resynthesized and digested account of baruch spinoza s 17th century philosophy, reiterates and further compounds one of the most vital critiques thought has ever produced. Spinoza ignora o trabalho do negativo e inventa a afirmacao da imanencia.
Department of philosophy, university of notre dame, notre dame, in 465560368, u. Wiki for collaborative studies of arts, media and humanities. In his magnum opus difference and repetition, he tries to. Nietzsche understood, having lived it himself, what constitutes the mystery of a philosophers life. To this end, deleuze develops his thesis that it is a shared philosophy of expression that, despite their differences, unites leibniz and spinoza in founding a postcartesian philosophy. On the one hand, deleuze says quite plainly that he is. Antioedipus 1972 and a thousand plateaus 1980, both cowritten with. Deleuze s reconstruction of spinoza s system as a logic of expres. Derrida deconstructs them, discovering those moments at which a philosophy, concept, text undoes itself.