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Single Idea 8247

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 2. Phenomenology ]

Full Idea

Phenomenology needs art as logic needs science.

Gist of Idea

Phenomenology needs art as logic needs science

Source

G Deleuze / F Guattari (What is Philosophy? [1991], 2.6)

Book Ref

Deleuze/Guattari: 'What is Philosophy?' [Verso 1994], p.149


A Reaction

I would have thought that it was science that needs logic. Art is more elitist than science, and less universal. I presume artists and phenomenologists share a target of deconstructing lived human experience.


The 15 ideas from G Deleuze / F Guattari

Political theory should not focus on the state or economy, but on the small scale of power [Deleuze/Guattari, by May]
Philosophy is a concept-creating discipline [Deleuze/Guattari]
The plague of philosophy is those who criticise without creating, and defend dead concepts [Deleuze/Guattari]
Logic has an infantile idea of philosophy [Deleuze/Guattari]
We cannot judge the Cogito. Must we begin? Must we start from certainty? Can 'I' relate to thought? [Deleuze/Guattari]
Concepts are superior because they make us more aware, and change our thinking [Deleuze/Guattari]
Other people completely revise our perceptions, because they are possible worlds [Deleuze/Guattari]
Philosophy is in a perpetual state of digression [Deleuze/Guattari]
'Eris' is the divinity of conflict, the opposite of Philia, the god of friendship [Deleuze/Guattari]
Philosophy aims at what is interesting, remarkable or important - not at knowledge or truth [Deleuze/Guattari]
Atheism is the philosopher's serenity, and philosophy's achievement [Deleuze/Guattari]
Logic hates philosophy, and wishes to supplant it [Deleuze/Guattari]
The logical attitude tries to turn concepts into functions, when they are really forms or forces [Deleuze/Guattari]
Phenomenology needs art as logic needs science [Deleuze/Guattari]
Phenomenology says thought is part of the world [Deleuze/Guattari]