Single Idea 21850

[catalogued under 2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic]

Full Idea

It is always possible to undo dualisms from the inside, by tracing the line of flight which passes between the two terms or the two sets …and which draws both into a non-parallel evolution. At least this does not belong to the dialectic.

Gist of Idea

Dualisms can be undone from within, by tracing connections, and drawing them to a new path

Source

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

Book Reference

Deleuze,Gilles: 'Dialogues II' [Continuum 2006], p.26


A Reaction

Deleuze disliked Hegel's version of the dialectic. Not clear what he means here, but he is evidently groping for an alternative account of the reasoning process, which is interesting. Deleuze hates rigid dualisms.