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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.
| 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] |