İktidar: Foucault Üzerine Dersler

by Gilles Deleuze

İ Foucault Üzerine Dersler

488 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2023

About the author

Deleuze is a key figure in poststructuralist French philosophy. Considering himself an empiricist and a vitalist, his body of work, which rests upon concepts such as multiplicity, constructivism, difference and desire, stands at a substantial remove from the main traditions of 20th century Continental thought. His thought locates him as an influential figure in present-day considerations of society, creativity and subjectivity. Notably, within his metaphysics he favored a Spinozian concept of a plane of immanence with everything a mode of one substance, and thus on the same level of existence. He argued, then, that there is no good and evil, but rather only relationships which are beneficial or harmful to the particular individuals. This ethics influences his approach to society and politics, especially as he was so politically active in struggles for rights and freedoms. Later in his career he wrote some of the more infamous texts of the period, in particular, Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus. These texts are collaborative works with the radical psychoanalyst Félix Guattari, and they exhibit Deleuze’s social and political commitment.

Gilles Deleuze began his career with a number of idiosyncratic yet rigorous historical studies of figures outside of the Continental tradition in vogue at the time. His first book, Empirisism and Subjectivity, is a study of Hume, interpreted by Deleuze to be a radical subjectivist. Deleuze became known for writing about other philosophers with new insights and different readings, interested as he was in liberating philosophical history from the hegemony of one perspective. He wrote on Spinoza, Nietzche, Kant, Leibniz and others, including literary authors and works, cinema, and art. Deleuze claimed that he did not write “about” art, literature, or cinema, but, rather, undertook philosophical “encounters” that led him to new concepts. As a constructivist, he was adamant that philosophers are creators, and that each reading of philosophy, or each philosophical encounter, ought to inspire new concepts. Additionally, according to Deleuze and his concepts of difference, there is no identity, and in repetition, nothing is ever the same. Rather, there is only difference: copies are something new, everything is constantly changing, and reality is a becoming, not a being.

He often collaborated with philosophers and artists as Félix Guattari, Michel Foucault, Guy Hocquenghem, René Schérer, Carmelo Bene, François Châtelet, Olivier Revault d'Allonnes, Jean-François Lyotard, Georges Lapassade, Kateb Yacine and many others.

Reviews

[Molsa Roja(s) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quina cosa! Mai hauria pensat que Foucault fos un filòsof difícil, suposo que per la popularitat d'alguns dels seus conceptes relacionats amb el poder. Però sí que ho era, sí. Aquest és un llibre fantàstic de Deleuze, un llibre que permet abordar la concepció del saber per a Foucault, per a qui és l'entrellaçament entre enunciats i visibilitats, allò que es veu i allò que es diu... És complicat, certament. Si el primer capítol és dens en abstracció i tot i això, plaent perquè hi apareixen molts conceptes nous, la part més ferragosa és indubtablement la lingüística. Tot i que és interessant, en no tenir-ne cap coneixement m'ha costat. Al final, sembla que el que necessita Foucault és simplement recorrer a la inspiració, sembla no tenir sortida, però d'alguna manera la troba amb el concepte de corba-enunciat que forma una constel•lació de singularitats extretes dels focus de poder... Amb ganes de seguir llegint sobre El poder amb Deleuze.

[Esmeralda GB · Rating 3 out of 5]

me harta cuando habla de linguistica.. siento que fue un gran logro terminarlo