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Full Idea
In Deleuze, Being is not a puzzle to be solved but a problem to be engaged. It is to be engaged by a thought that moves as comfortably among problems as it does among solutions, as fluidly among differences as it does among identities.
Gist of Idea
Being is a problem to be engaged, not solved, and needs a new mode of thinking
Source
report of Gilles Deleuze (Difference and Repetition [1968]) by Todd May - Gilles Deleuze 4.01
Book Ref
May,Todd: 'Gilles Deleuze' [CUP 2006], p.116
A Reaction
This sounds like what I've always known as 'negative capability' (thanks to Keats). Is philosophy just a hobby, like playing darts? It seems that the aim of the process is 'liberation', about which I would like to know more.
| 24112 | To think about being we must have an opinion about what it is [Nietzsche] |
| 24131 | There is no 'being'; it is just the opposition to nothingness [Nietzsche] |
| 5657 | Frege's logic showed that there is no concept of being [Frege, by Scruton] |
| 23077 | The word 'being' is very tempting, but in fact means nothing at all [Cioran] |
| 10787 | Is being just referent of the verb 'to be'? [Marcus (Barcan)] |
| 21847 | Before Being there is politics [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] |
| 12332 | The modern view of Being comes when we reject numbers as merely successions of One [Badiou] |
| 12326 | The primitive name of Being is the empty set; in a sense, only the empty set 'is' [Badiou] |