Deleuze and Materialism: One or Several Matters?
In: Deleuzian Century?; 1999, p59-83, 25p
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This article focuses on Gilles Deleuze's philosophy concerning materialism. Deleuze is generally regarded as a materialist. Many believe that its definitive philosophical position stems from his work on Spinoza, which advances a mechanistic materialism of efficient causality. In fact, this image of Deleuze has in part motivated the application of his ideas in terms of the seemingly reductive materialisms of cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and body-centered sociology, among others. Yet a host of different notions of materialism--reductive and nonreductive--are current across the breadth of Deleuze's philosophy. There are also other, nonmaterialist claims on his thought, empiricism and vitalism being the two outstanding contenders. As Deleuze is still a relatively unknown quantity outside France, it remains easy enough to misappropriate his ideas. They are the cybernetics theorists, whose advocacy of Deleuzian philosophy might seem to be that philosophy's main hope for a return to the heights of avant-garde fashion that it enjoyed in the 1970s.
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Deleuze and Materialism: One or Several Matters?
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Mullarkey, John |
Quelle: | Deleuzian Century?; 1999, p59-83, 25p |
Veröffentlichung: | 1999 |
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ISBN: | 978-0-8223-2392-1 (print) |
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