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Single Idea 21841

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy ]

Full Idea

Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.

Gist of Idea

We must create new words, and treat them as normal, and as if designating real things.

Source

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

Book Ref

Deleuze,Gilles: 'Dialogues II' [Continuum 2006], p.3


A Reaction

This sounds like the attitude of someone creating a computer game. A language game! The idea is to create concepts with which to 'palpitate' our conceptual scheme, in order to reveal it, and thus put it within our power.


The 19 ideas with the same theme [key shared characteristics of continental modern philosophy]:

We must break up the rigidity that our understanding has imposed [Hegel]
Truth does not appear by asserting reasons and then counter-reasons [Hegel]
Modern philosophy begins with Descartes' abstraction from sensation and matter [Feuerbach]
Empiricism is right about ideas, but forgets man himself as one of our objects [Feuerbach]
We must create new words, and treat them as normal, and as if designating real things. [Deleuze]
'Difference' refers to that which eludes capture [Deleuze, by May]
Philosophy and politics are fundamentally linked [Foucault]
Some continental philosophers are relativists - Baudrillard, for example [Baudrillard, by Critchley]
The plague of philosophy is those who criticise without creating, and defend dead concepts [Deleuze/Guattari]
Two marxist ideas have dominated in France: base and superstructure, and ideology [Scruton]
To meet the division in our life, try the Subject, Nature, Spirit, Will, Power, Praxis, Unconscious, or Being [Critchley]
The French keep returning, to Hegel or Nietzsche or Marx [Critchley]
German idealism aimed to find a unifying principle for Kant's various dualisms [Critchley]
Since Hegel, continental philosophy has been linked with social and historical enquiry. [Critchley]
Continental philosophy fights the threatened nihilism in the critique of reason [Critchley]
Continental philosophy is based on critique, praxis and emancipation [Critchley]
Continental philosophy has a bad tendency to offer 'one big thing' to explain everything [Critchley]
Analytic philosophy has much higher standards of thinking than continental philosophy [Williamson]
Deleuze relies on Spinoza (immanence), Bergson (duration), and difference (Nietzsche) [May]