Thinking the Concept Otherwise

Abstract

In What is Philosophy?, Deleuze and Guattari think the concept 01 concept otherwise. In keeping with Deleuze 's professed empiricism, he and Guattari study various concepts and lextract' a new concept 01the concept. This constructive method does not illuminate how and why their proposed concept differs /rom the traditional. This paper considers how Deleuze and Guattari 's concept does differ, as a first step towards arriving at some evaluation 01their analysis. RESUME: Dans Qu'est-ce que la philosophie?, Deleuze et Guattaripensent le concept autrement. Tout en s 'en tenant aI 'empirisme avoue de Deleuze, ce dernier et Guattari analysent differents concepts et en 'extraient' un nouveau concept de concept. Cette methode constructive n 'eclaire cependant pas comment et pourquoi le concept qu 'ils proposent diffire du concept traditionnel. Apres avoir considere la lar;on dont le concept de Deleuze et Guattari diffire en effet de I 'acception traditionnelle, cet article pourra se pencher sur la question de I 'evaluation de leur analyse.

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