Degree
Master of Arts
Program
Theory and Criticism
Supervisor
Daniel Vaillancourt
Abstract
This thesis undertakes a comparative study of the philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Ludwig Wittgenstein to elaborate three related problems in what in Deleuze calls ‘transcendental empiricism’. The first chapter deals with the problematic of the dimension of sense in language, and culminates in a concept of the event. The second details the immanence of stupidity within thought and culminates in a practice of showing through silence. The third investigates the consequences of aesthetics for the theory of Ideas, and culminates in the concepts of ‘late intuition’ and of a form of life. Each argues for a new way of broaching the subject of philosophical realism.
Recommended Citation
Allen, M. Curtis, "Deleuze Through Wittgenstein: Essays in Transcendental Empiricism" (2014). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 2482.
https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/2482
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