What Is Philosophy? |  | Authors: Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Called by many France's foremost philosopher, Gilles Deleuze is one of the leading thinkers in the Western World. His acclaimed works and celebrated collaborations with Félix Guattari have established him as a seminal figure in the fields of literary criticism and philosophy. The long-awaited publication of in English marks the culmination of Deleuze's career. Deleuze and Guattari differentiate between philosophy, science, and the arts, seeing as means of confronting chaos, and challenge the common view that philosophy is an extension of logic. The authors also discuss the similarities and distinctions between creative and philosophical writing. Fresh anecdotes from the history of philosophy illuminate the book, along with engaging discussions of composers, painters, writers, and architects. A milestone in Deleuze's collaboration with Guattari, brings a new perspective to Deleuze's studies of cinema, painting, and music, while setting a brilliant capstone upon his work.
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 A successful exposition of knowledge October 16, 1998
a reader
33 out of 34 found this review helpful
First of all, this book is not an introduction to philosophy and should not be read by beginners who has not read any philosophical text before. Rather, as the writers say, this should be read by people who are engaged with philosophy for sometime either as a student or as an enthusiastic reader and who reached the point of asking the question ''What the hell I' m doing?'' This book gives the answer and lets the philosophy student recognise his/her task and continue work being much more conscious about the topic. The book carefully analyses the differences between scientific, philosophic and artistic knowledge and also succeeds in giving their relations in a clear way. Defining philosophy as ''creation of concepts'' may, at first, seem like an old and unoriginal definition but as you continue reading the book you will easily see that that definition gives way to a really original and successful conceptualization of philosophy and science. As a result I recommend this book to all students of philosophy except the freshmen whether coming from the analytic or continental tradition.
Philosophy is Creation August 29, 2010
Jeremy Garber (Denver, CO United States)
Deleuze and Guattari's masterful reconception of thought, succinctly packaged and clearly articulated - although not the clear articulation you might expect. D&G define philosophy as "the art of forming, inventing, and fabricating concepts," as opposed to science's art of describing patterns that already exist, or art's creation of percepts and sensations. Part One explains the nature of the concept; the plane of immanence on which all philosophy depends; the philosopher's use of conceptual personae to explore their concepts (like Plato's Socrates or Nietzsche's Zarathustra); and tracing the movement of the concept through its formations and reformations (what D&G call territorialization and deterritorialization). Part Two then compares philosophy's role to science's and arts, reserving special criticism for logic's (misguided) assumption of philosophy's role. Finally, D&G creatively introduce the brain as the intersection of these three planes: philosophy, science, and art. A wonderful final masterpiece from two "conceptual personae" who really cause us to think in an original way, and will not settle for anything less.
The last try January 12, 2002
Jorge Maldonado (Bogota, Colombia)
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
The book is what one could call the image-thought of Deleuze himself. What is explained in chapter two is the book itself. If one wants the answer to the question: "¿what is then the image of thought of Deleuze and Guattari?" then this book is the answer. Now, one cannot simply answer: "Creation". After reading the book and some other parts of their philosophy, one understands that that is just the external form of the answer, not worng, but not whole. A new system of philosophy "is finished" with this book. Not a hegelian system, but as Hegel did.
Sssshhhhwweeeeeet! November 17, 2007
R. Orr (timbuktu)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
Condition? Unbelievable! Delivery? It arrived so fast, time was suspended and then went backward for about half a second. Seriously.
Culmination of D-G June 13, 2001
4 out of 16 found this review helpful
Deleuze and Guattari present their perspective on philosophy, science and art. According to them, philosophy is to create concepts. The writing is quite dense but you will find the D-G's final spark in this book.
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