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What Is Philosophy?

Disciplines:
philosophy/continental philosophy
metaphysics/metaphilosophy

Summary

Late collaborative work by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari defining philosophy as the creation of concepts, distinguished from science (functions on a plane of reference) and art (affects and percepts on a plane of composition).

Core Contribution

Philosophy is concept creation on a plane of immanence; science creates functions on a plane of reference; art creates affects and percepts on a plane of composition. Each is a distinct mode of thinking with no hierarchy among them.

Historical Influences

Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari

Intellectual Lineage

No conceptual lineage found.

Allied Works

Difference and Repetition A Thousand Plateaus

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

No conceptual posterity found.

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