scholarly journals Deleuzian (Re)interpretation of Zhu Xi

Asian Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-310
Author(s):  
Margus Ott
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
Zhu Xi ◽  
Conceptual Space ◽  
Qi 氣 ◽  
Chinese Philosophers

I propose an interpretation of Zhu Xi 朱熹 (1130–1200) seen through the ontology of Gilles Deleuze. Zhu Xi is one of the most prominent Chinese philosophers, the figurehead of the so-called Neo-Confucian school, and Deleuze is arguably one of the most important Western philosophers of the twentieth century. Both philosophers presented an ontology of differentiation, whose main aspects or stages I try to analyse in the paper: Deleuze’s notions of the virtual, dark precursor, field of individuation, intensities and the actual; and parallel to these, Zhu Xi’s notions of the veins (li 理), supreme ultimate (taiji 太極), energy (qi 氣), and things (wu 物). It is argued that a Deleuzian (re)interpretation of Zhu Xi is possible and that it may open new tools of analysis for studying Chinese philosophy as well as create a conceptual space that can bring together concepts and practices from different traditions.

Critiques and Integrations of Phenomenology

2018 ◽  
pp. 87-95
Author(s):  
Federico Leoni
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Spatial Structures ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Way Of Thinking

Phenomenology played a central role in twentieth-century philosophy. But, from the second half of the century, many alternative philosophical movements emerged. Despite their radical criticism of phenomenology, they regularly touched upon themes that had been originally propounded by phenomenology itself. This is true of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gilles Deleuze. At the basis of their approaches, there is the need for a new version of the transcendental, the idea of an impure transcendental, and the intuition of a non-transcendental structure of the transcendental, which they all name “difference.” Phenomenology could draw useful insights from these perspectives: e.g., a more continuous view of the range of psychopathological experiences; a more exact comprehension of the different temporal and spatial structures of psychopathological worlds, as the internal possibilities and infinitesimal variations of the transcendental; and a more critical way of thinking through the structure of institutions and the normativity that dominates them.

Immanence and Deterritorialization

1998 ◽  
pp. 137-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Günzel
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Philosophical Thinking ◽  
Academic Philosophy ◽  
The Impact

In academic philosophy the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari are still treated as curiosities and their importance for philosophical discussions is not recognized. In order to remedy this, I demonstrate how the very concept of philosophy expounded by the two contributes to philosophical thinking at the end of the twentieth century while also providing a possible line of thought for the next millenium. To do this, I first emphasize the influence of Deleuze's thinking, while also indicating the impact Guattari had on him. This account will therefore show Deleuze's attempts before Guattari to concieve of a non-dialectic philosophy of becoming. I will turn to rethink this approach given the influence of Guattari and his anti-psychoanalytic analysis of territorial processes. The result is a conception of philosophical activity as an act of 'becoming minor'.

scholarly journals Deleuzian Dragons: Thinking Chinese Strategic Spatial Planning with Gilles Deleuze

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 390-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Hillier ◽  
Kang Cao
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
The World ◽  
Chinese Scholars ◽  
Contemporary Chinese ◽  
Metaphorical Concept

As symbols of adaptability and transformation, together with qualities of vigilance and intelligence, we argue the relevance of dragons for spatial planning in China. We develop a metaphorical concept – the green dragon – for grasping the condition of contemporary Chinese societies and for facilitating the development of theories and practices of spatial planning which are able to face the challenges of rapid change. We ask Chinese scholars and spatial planners to liberate Deleuzian potential for strategic spatial planning in a ‘becoming-between, coming-together’ of concepts which can effectively make a difference in the world. Having outlined what we regard as key transversals or diagonals between our reading of Gilles Deleuze and aspects of Chinese philosophy, we then offer the metaphor of strategic spatial planning as Chinese literati landscape painting. This is a form of painting which rejects the idea of the world being supremely organised from a particular point of view, preferring to paint immanence and transformation. Chinese literati landscape paintings, like philosophy and strategic spatial planning, ‘look only at the movements’. We conclude that connections between what concepts of Chinese philosophy and those of Gilles Deleuze can do, suggest that in China, a conception of strategic spatial planning as metaphorical green dragon may offer academics and planning practitioners a transverse way to relate the legacies of past philosophies and current thinking.

scholarly journals Di-vision/double vision

IDEA JOURNAL ◽  
1969 ◽  
pp. 3-10
Author(s):  
Suzie Attiwill
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Binary Relation ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Double Vision ◽  
Interior Decoration ◽  
Conference Theme ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Thinking Differently

The conference theme ‘Between excess and austerity’ indicates a division which has shaped the discipline of interior design during the twentieth century. This paper is the outcome of a desire to open up this binary relation which continually dogs the practiceof interior design. The writings of Gilles Deleuze, in particular his attempt to ‘overturn Platonism’, are used as a tool to lever and open up possibilities for thinking differently. The immediate effect is that in between excess and austerity one encounters an ‘and’ – excess and austerity – hence the title of the paper ‘di-vision/ double vision’. Rather than between or either/or, it is both. This produces a blurring of vision which problematises the distinction made between interior design and interior decoration based on questions of excess and austerity as one equated with ornamentation versus the essentialism of a minimal aesthetic. This paper considers three familiar modernist surfaces from the twentieth century. Looking through glasses provided by the writings of Deleuze, the Platonic nature of the surfaces is apparent but so too are other ways of viewing these surfaces – division becomes di-vision or double vision and the possibilities for other ways of thinking and doing proliferate. The question of excess and austerity shifts from one of ‘to decorate or not?’ to one where the binary is blurred and the between becomes ‘and’ rather than a between of moderation. This involves an epistemological shift from a search for essences and ideals to an encounter with surfaces where meaning and events happen in which the proliferating intensity of life can be both austere and excessive.

The Philosopher’s Baroque: Benjamin, Lacan, Deleuze

2018 ◽  
pp. 486-496
Author(s):  
William Egginton
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Specific Aspect ◽  
Feminine Sexuality ◽  
Tragic Drama ◽  
Distinct Aspect ◽  
Field Of Inquiry

This essay examines three twentieth-century intellectuals, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, and Gilles Deleuze, who, inspired by historical baroque thought or cultural production, developed a body of thought around the concept “baroque” that has in turn pollinated a new field of inquiry that continues to thrive today. These groupings are only partially distinct because, as we will see, the philosophical Baroque draws in some ways from baroque philosophy, although it is more often and obviously motivated by reflections on aesthetics and form. Each of these thinkers was concerned with a distinct aspect or figure of baroque culture or thought. In Walter Benjamin’s case, he drew out significant aspects of the Baroque in his never-to-be-accepted Habilitationsschrift on German tragic drama. In Jacques Lacan’s case, he devoted several weeks of his 1972–1973 seminar on feminine sexuality to the Baroque. Finally, Gilles Deleuze’s contribution came in the form of a book-length study of the German baroque philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Leibniz. In this essay, I summarize what each of these thinkers extracted from his engagement with that specific aspect of baroque culture or thought that fascinated him at the time, before concluding with some thoughts about how these three, in many ways wildly different thinkers, overlap in their consideration of the Baroque.

The Ti-Yong 體用 Model and Its Discontents

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brook A. Ziporyn
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
Detailed Comparison ◽  
Zhu Xi ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
The Core ◽  
Crucial Component ◽  
Structural Differences ◽  
Core Concepts

This chapter provides compelling perspective on Zhu Xi’s repurposing of Buddhist ideas to develop his own philosophical thought. The focus is the ti-yong (inherent reality-function) conceptual polarity—one of the core concepts in Chinese philosophy. The author shows that although Tiantai Buddhists, Huayan Buddhists, and Zhu Xi all deploy the ti-yong model as a crucial component of their metaphysics, in certain key places they deploy it for different ends, leading to subtle structural differences that amounted to large philosophical consequences for these different groups. The author first develops a detailed comparison of these models in the Huayan and Tiantai schools, and then shows how analogous structures to each of these are adapted to form parts of Zhu Xi’s metaphysics. In doing so, he presents an entirely new way to understand Zhu Xi’s philosophical inventiveness and its profound debt to Buddhist thought.

Introduction: Ecological Turbulence and the Adventure of Metaphysics

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Russell J. Duvernoy
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Alfred North Whitehead ◽  
The Creation

This is a study of metaphysical resonances between two twentieth-century thinkers conducted in a spirit of speculative pragmatism. While it presumes an interest in its main figures (Alfred North Whitehead and Gilles Deleuze), it does not aspire to exhaustively detail all of their conceptual convergences and divergences, but rather to do something with the resonance it studies. As such, with a dose of caution and humility, it follows Deleuze’s conception of philosophy as the creation of concepts. What concept comes out of a mutual reading of Deleuze and Whitehead? More specifically, how does taking seriously the process-inflected metaphysics implicated in their work potentially alter the lived experience of subjectivity?...

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