Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of art : the cruelty of affect
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Date
1999Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
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Abstract
In this work the influential contemporary French philosopher
Gilles Deleuze' s aesthetic theory has been analysed with
regard to its philosophical origins. Baruch Spinoza, whose
influence is felt in the whole of Deleuze' s ouevre, proves to
be the basic figure of his approach to art as well. Gilles
Deleuze sets out to formulate a vitalist theory of art, the
scope of which requires that the categories of judgement and
reception be displaced. This scope situates artistic activity
in a generalised creativity, where reception and judgement
find their places as points of break and tension which could
still be examined within the system of creation.