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Article: OBITUARY: Gilles Deleuze
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 8, 1995
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In the introduction to Qu'est-ce que la philosophie? (1991) the
philosopher Gilles Deleuze and his co-author the psychoanalyst
Felix Guattari suggest that one cannot ask such a question until
late in life, in old age which is the time to "speak concretely" at
last. When that book was written, at the age of 65, Deleuze could
hardly be called "old" by today's standards. But "What is
philosophy?" is indeed the sort of question one asks oneself, as he
tells us, "at midnight, when one no longer has anything to lose".
He goes on:
In younger days, of course, one never stopped asking it, but in
a manner too indirect, or oblique, too artificial, too abstract,
and one expatiated upon it, dominating it ...