‘Thought without an image’ Deleuzian philosophy as an ethics of the event

dc.contributor.authorSpangenberg, Yolanda
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-11T05:37:04Z
dc.date.available2012-06-11T05:37:04Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractAccording to Gilles Deleuze, all thinking, acting, experience and perception – indeed, all of life – is a process of imaging. Following Deleuze, philosophy then is not a discipline concerned with uncovering what the self is. Philosophy, rather, is an interrogation into the production of images of thought and ultimately it is the quest for ‘thought without an image.’ As philosophers, our task is not to establish the truest world but to think the multiplicity and plurality of perceptions that unfold divergent worlds. In short: the key issue for philosophy is not to point to a more real image, but to insist that thinking, in so far as it is a potential for imaging, can only be maximized by not allowing any single image to govern all others. This is an ethics of the event, defined not by what we are, but by the potential of thought to open itself to the sphere of the virtual - that is, to what is not already given.en_US
dc.description.librariancp2012en
dc.description.urihttp://www.phronimon.co.za/index.php/phronien_US
dc.identifier.citationSpangenberg. Y 2009, '‘Thought without an image’ Deleuzian philosophy as an ethics of the event', Phronimon, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 89-100.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1561-4018
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/19137
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSouth African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanitiesen_US
dc.rightsSouth African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanitiesen_US
dc.subjectDeleuzian philosophyen_US
dc.subjectGilles Deleuzeen_US
dc.subjectImages of thoughten_US
dc.subjectConditions of thoughten_US
dc.subjectEthics of the eventen
dc.subject.lcshPhilosophyen
dc.subject.lcshImagery (Psychology)en
dc.subject.lcshThought and thinkingen
dc.title‘Thought without an image’ Deleuzian philosophy as an ethics of the eventen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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