Single Idea 21847

[catalogued under 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / i. Deflating being]

Full Idea

Before Being there is politics.

Gist of Idea

Before Being there is politics

Source

Gilles Deleuze (A Conversation: what is it? What is it for? [1977], I)

Book Reference

Deleuze,Gilles: 'Dialogues II' [Continuum 2006], p.13


A Reaction

[He says he is quoting Felix Guattari] I can only think that this is a very Marxist view - that politics permeates and dictates everything. This seems to tell me that I am forever controlled by something so deep and vast that I can never understand it.