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Full Idea
In Deleuze's hands ontology is not a matter of telling us what there is, but of taking us on strange adventures.
Gist of Idea
Ontology does not tell what there is; it is just a strange adventure
Source
report of Gilles Deleuze (Difference and Repetition [1968]) by Todd May - Gilles Deleuze 3.03
Book Ref
May,Todd: 'Gilles Deleuze' [CUP 2006], p.86
A Reaction
Presumably you only indulge in the strange adventure because you have no idea how to specify what there is. This sounds like the essence of post-modernism, in which life is just a game.
| 21901 | 'Difference' refers to that which eludes capture [Deleuze, by May] |
| 21908 | Ontology can be continual creation, not to know being, but to probe the unknowable [Deleuze] |
| 21903 | Ontology does not tell what there is; it is just a strange adventure [Deleuze, by May] |
| 21904 | Being is a problem to be engaged, not solved, and needs a new mode of thinking [Deleuze, by May] |
| 21902 | 'Being' is univocal, but its subject matter is actually 'difference' [Deleuze] |