[MD] MOQ & Deleuze

[Ian Glendinning]

I have this post "starred" ... meaning to come back to it, I blogged
something about Deleuze some time ago, (and Guattari and .... the
other whatshisname ... "On Grammatology" foggie froggie.)

Dangerous to admit you find these PoMo's actually speak sense ;-)
Ian

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:31 PM, David M <davidint at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Ham
>
> Always glad to be of service.
>
> Regards
> David M
>
>> Greetings, David --
>>
>>
>> I'm indebted to you for referencing this source:
>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deleuze
>>>
>>> some interesting ideas of Deleuze about how experience
>>> and concepts relate that MOQers might like to ponder. Deleuze puts
>>> difference before identity, or could that be
>>> DQ/flux over SQ?
>>
>> How Deleuze's metaphysical concept of Difference may relate to Pirsig's
>> levels and patterns remains to be seen.  But his theory offers new support
>> for my ontogeny of differentiated existents.  I was particularly struck by
>> Wiki's interpretation of this concept:
>>
>>   Traditionally, difference is seen as derivative from identity:
>>   e.g., to say that "X is different from Y" assumes some X and Y
>>   with at least relatively stable identities.  To the contrary, Deleuze
>>   claims that all identities are effects of difference.  Identities are
>>   not logically or metaphysically prior to difference, Deleuze argues,
>>   "given that there exist differences of nature between things of
>>   the same genus."  That is, not only are no two things ever the
>>   same, the categories we use to identify individuals in the first
>>   place derive from differences.
>>
>> Here's how The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy describes this French
>> academician's contribution to philosophy:
>>
>> "Deleuze conceived of philosophy as the production of concepts, and he
>> characterized himself as a 'pure metaphysician.'  In his magnum opus
>> Difference and Repetition, he tries to develop a metaphysics adequate to
>> contemporary mathematics and science - a metaphysics in which the concept of
>> multiplicity replaces that of substance, event replaces essence and
>> virtuality replaces possibility."
>>
>> Thanks for pointing us to this reference, Dave.  It puts a new slant on
>> the Beingness of Sartrean Existentialism.  I shall have to explore Deleuze
>> more thoroughly.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ham
>>
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