| Abstract [eng] |
This dissertation researches the conception of philosophy presented by Gilles Deleuze – one of the most important thinkers of the last century. As Michel Foucault noticed, one day Deleuze’s name may become an instrument for the characterization of the 20th century’s philosophical thinking. Though Deleuze is usually considered to be the ideologist of postmodernism he showed a huge interest in the traditional question about the essence of philosophy, and this, in its turn, allows us to consider the possibilities philosophy has after „the Big Story“ has collapsed. The dissertation mostly focuses on the ontological problematic since Deleuzean conception of philosophy is analyzed with a regard to basic philosophical issues and questions of Being and Cognition. Three parts of this dissertation reveal the dependence of Deleuze’s conception of philosophy on Western tradition of philosophy; and this is done by discussing the original interpretations Deleuze made on other thinkers. There is also the analysis of main ontological and epistemological statements of Deleuze’s philosophy and their comparison to the statements of similar nature that dominate in the tradition of philosophy. Finally, the impact these statements made on the conception of philosophy, which Deleuze sees as the creation of concepts, is revealed. The ambiguity of Deleuzean position is stated in the dissertation. Though criticizing traditional Western metaphysics as a contemplation of transcendence and identity, Deleuze preserved a fundamental structure of “metaphysics” since he treated philosophy as an attempt of thinking to transcend givenness as well as to step over the boundary line of everyday empirical experience. Thus, in Deleuze’s conception of philosophy there remains a meta-level as a correlation between visible and invisible, thinkable and unthinkable. |
