In this essay, I examine the ‘Postulates of Linguistics’ chapter of A Thousand Plateaus. In regard to this chapter, I aim to demonstrate something that has remained unrecognised about minor language in Deleuze and Guattari. I aim to show not only the characteristics of Deleuzian speaking in tongues that overlap with Foucaultian speaking-freely and with Derridean speaking-distantly, but also and more importantly, I hope to show how it is possible for us to make a language speak in tongues. Derrida's way (...) of speaking is made only by forming an enunciation that states a self-contradiction, which thereby makes the enunciation imply more than it says. Foucault's way of speaking is made only by forming an enunciation that states the truth directly and loudly, which thereby makes the enunciation do more than it says. And finally, Deleuze way of speaking is made only by forming an enunciation that states a command abstracted from its context, which thereby makes the enunciation proliferate. All three ways of speaking are made not for the benefit of the speaker, but ‘in favour of’ others. And perhaps this speaking ‘in favour of’ others will allow us to come to understand the true meaning of the phrase ‘capitalism and schizophrenia’. (shrink)

This essay is concerned with an enigmatic passage at the heart of Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition which locates the origin of ideas in an “aleatory point”. Deleuze develops this claim th...

La question fondamentale d’Albert Lautman concerne la nature du réel et la capacité de l’esprit de l’appréhender. C’est pourquoi elle convoque les données de la physique, leur expression en concepts mathématiques et leur interprétation métaphysique qui doit préciser le rapport de la pensée humaine à la réalité du monde. L’examen des théories mathématiques les plus sophistiquées de son temps est destinée à montrer l’affinité de la genèse des concepts mathématiques avec une Dialectique supérieure, qui met en jeu les Idées, comprises (...) en un sens dérivé de Platon. Mon but est d’expliquer comment Lautman comprend les termes « Dialectique », « Idée », « genèse », simultanément sur le plan métaphysique et dans leur incarnation mathématique. Je montrerai que Lautman développe une conception très personnelle du platonisme, différente de celle de la version reçue par la tradition philosophique. Lautman rejette la séparation des Idées et du sensible, et adopte le style de pensée heideggerien pour montrer que les Idées sont mues par une Dialectique et qu’elles entretiennent une relation réciproque, dialectique, avec le sensible.Albert Lautman’s main questioning was about the nature of reality and the capacity of mind to grasp reality. The answer needs to go at the same time into the laws and tools of physics and the corresponding concepts of mathematics, and to search for the metaphysical interpretation that could give an account of the relation between scientific thought and reality. The examination of the most sophisticated mathematical theories was intended to show the affinity between the generation of mathematical concepts and the dialectical movement of Ideas. My aim is to explain how Lautman understood ‘Idea’, ‘Dialectic’, ‘genesis’ at once in a mathematical and in a metaphysical meaning. I will point out that Lautman had a very personal conception of Platonism, very different from Platonism of mathematicians of his time and very different from the traditional interpretation developed in philosophy. Lautman did not assume the separation between Ideas and the sensible world. By contrast, he adopted the Heideggerian style of thought to show the Dialectic between Ideas and the reciprocal relation between Ideas and the sensible. (shrink)

Le dialogue entre Sartre et Aron a commencé lorsqu'ils étaient tous les deux à l'École normale superiéure dans les années 1920, et a continué, d'une manière souvent indirecte et intermittente, jusqu'à la parution du livre d'Aron, Histoire et dialectique de la violence, qui est une analyse de la Critique de la raison dialectique de Sartre.

In Différence et répétition, Deleuze's ontology is structured by his theory of dialectical Ideas or problems, which draws features from Plato, Kant, and classical calculus. Deleuze unifies these features through a theory of Ideas/problems developed by the mathematician and philosopher Albert Lautman. Lautman worked to explain the nature of the problems or dialectical Ideas mathematics engages and the solutions or mathematical theories endeavouring to understand them. Lautman drew upon Heidegger to do this. This article clarifies Deleuze's theory of dialectical Ideas/problems (...) by analysing its debts to Lautman and Heidegger and demonstrates a Heideggerian influence on Deleuze via Lautman. (shrink)

Nous posons l'oeuvre d'Albert Lautman comme une sorte d'opérateur de brisure de symétrie dans le cadre de l'opposition traditionnelle de la philosophie spéculative et des sciences physico-mathématiques. L'enjeu pour la philosophie en est, à de très rares exceptions près, encore très mal perçu. Sur ce plan, nous reprenons la question du « platonisme » supposé de Lautman, et nous le confrontons à sa lecture fondamentale de Martin Heidegger. Les conséquences de cette inscription dans le sillon heideggérien sont fondamentales pour une (...) juste restitution de cette pensée et de cette philosophie dans ce qu'elles conservent de plus actuel. Sur l'autre versant, celui des percées lautmaniennes dans le champ de la physique mathématique, nous insistons sur l'extrême alacrité prospectiviste de son regard, sa puissance philosophique venant renforcer cette singulière sensibilité à ce qui fit l'essentiel des mathématiques et de la physique théorique de son temps. En ce sens, sa position occupe bel et bien l'un des points nodaux du site « surrationaliste ». (shrink)

Este artigo pretende restituir a leitura que Heidegger e Sartre realizam da filosofia de Descartes, desvelando, a partir disso, as diferentes posições interpretativas que ambos os filósofos tomam em relação ao pensamento cartesiano. Observar-se-á que o tratamento dado por Heidegger à metafísica cartesiana explicita um anti-humanismo contrário ao humanismo sartreano. A partir dessa diferença, seremos capazes de assinalar um distanciamento teórico entre Heidegger e Sartre, distanciamento que poderá revelar, por conseguinte, a maneira peculiar pela qual Sartre opera com os conceitos (...) hedeggerianos em L’être et le néant. Palavras-chave: humanismo; anti-humanismo; fenomenologia; liberdade; metafísica.: This article aims to replace the Hedeigger’s and Sartre’s read from Descarte’s philosophy unveiling, from that, the different interpretive positions that both philosophers take in relation to the Cartesian thought. We will observe that the treatment given by Heidegger to the Cartesian metaphysics reveals an anti-humanism contrary from Sartre’s humanism. From this difference, we will be able to point out a theoretical detachment between Heidegger and Sartre, detachment that may reveal, meanwhile, the peculiar way by which Sartre deals with the Heidegger’s concepts in L’être et le néant. Keywords: humanism; anti-humanism; phenomenology; freedom; metaphysics. (shrink)