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Oceanic ontology, resistant thought and the problematic : Gilles Deleuze and transcendental philosophy
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Beginning from a discussion of the nature of Deleuzian philosophy as a resistant thought, I
try to develop an account of philosophic sense through examining the role of affect, event
and character as they figure in some key Deleuzian works. This discussion leads to the
importance of the notion of concept creation within Deleuzian philosophy and following a
brief discussion of the different approaches to invention and the new that can be found in
a comparison of Deleuze with Jacques Derrida, I move to examine the way in which
Deleuze's concept of philosophic sense relies upon a ontological commitment or model
that leads me to describe Deleuze's philosophy as 'oceanic'. The thesis then pursu:es the
implications for this oceanic model by turning to how Deleuzian thought might deal with
philosophical problems and another comparison with Derrida is drawn, this time ~round
the way philosophical aporias are conceived. The generally productive emphasis of
Deleuzian thought is then considered, in its relation to the Kantian transcendental
philosophy, as part of an attempt to reconfigure the transcendental move, primarily
through the concepts of passive synthesis and counter-actualisation. A discussion of
learning then leads to a case study which involves a reading of Wittgenstein's Tr,ctatus
Logico Philosophicus in terms of a constitutive problematic at the heart of that work.
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