Universität Wien

180073 SE What is philosophy (2012W)

Gilles Deleuze

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 18 - Philosophie
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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max. 45 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 09.10. 11:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 16.10. 11:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 23.10. 11:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 30.10. 11:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 06.11. 11:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 13.11. 11:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 20.11. 11:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 27.11. 11:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 04.12. 11:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 11.12. 11:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 18.12. 11:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 08.01. 11:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 15.01. 11:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 22.01. 11:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Tuesday 29.01. 11:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal 2G, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. II/2.Stock, 1010 Wien

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

In What Is Philosophy? Deleuze and Guattari present us a concept of philosophy, in which thinkings becomes a creative mode of acting. It creates concepts. Thus philosophy enters into a close relationship to the arts. A philosopher does not think something which is already fully constituted before he thinks IT. On the contrary. Thinking constructs the object of thinking while it thinks IT. Not out of nothingness, but by resignifying the archives of our past through repeating them differently. Re-thinking what has been determined in the past tense thus becomes a creative act in which one gives future to the past. This image of thought culminates in the conception of a creative plane of Immanence as a force at work in philosophers, artists and scientists in different modes.

Assessment and permitted materials

Lecture (20 Minutes)
Seminar work (10-15 pages)
Discussion in the seminar and seminar attendance

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

1. Introduction into the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
2. Close reading of their latest book What is Philosophy?
3. Introduction in post-structualist image of thought.
4. Conceptualization of major philosophical problems of contemporary philosophies.
5. Analyzing a philosophy of immanence.

Examination topics

Close reading of What is Philosophy?. A group of two students will present a passage of the book (20 minutes presentation + 20 minutes discussion). The text passages will be fixed in the first lecture-session of the seminar. After the presentation a written version of the presentation (10-15 pages) has to be delivered. It will be published on the Moodle plattform of the seminar.

Reading list

Deleuze, Gilles, Guattari, Felix: What is Philosophy? Columbia University Press: New York 1994.

Association in the course directory

BA M 11, PP § 57.3.7

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