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- Title
The Interesting, the Remarkable, the Unusual: Deleuze's Grand Style.
- Authors
Olkowski, Dorothea
- Abstract
Gilles Deleuze takes up the challenge to create a philosophy of the interesting, the remarkable and the unusual. He does this in what Alain Badiou calls the ''Grand Style'', the style of Descartes, Spinoza and Kant whose philosophies arise in relation to developments in the natural sciences and mathematics. Grounding himself in the molar-molecular pair, Deleuze sets out a new image of thought. He conceptualises an immanent but still relatively closed, deterministic, atomistic and reversible system that is not immediately reduced to entropic equilibrium because its processes take place on the molecular level, at speeds which he hypothesises are beyond the speed of light. He postulates a manifold, a sphere of immanence that is the entire universe and not merely the Earth or our solar system. It is a system governed by sensitivity to initial starting points and unstable boundaries, thus although it is chaotic as well as probabilistic, it remains a mathematically formal, deterministic system.
- Publication
Deleuze Studies, 2011, Vol 5, Issue 1, p118
- ISSN
1750-2241
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.3366/dls.2011.0011