O ser do sensível como matriz do pensamento: filosofia e arte em Gilles Deleuze

Abstract

We start with the following proposition: in Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy, every Idea is immediately aesthetic. It is possible to think of an “unmediated” relationship between Ideas and sensation: sensation is the matrix of thought. Such proposition is supported insofar as Deleuze extracts from the encounter between philosophy and art a conception of genesis of thought throught experimentation. Both philosophy and art have their own creative Ideas and their specific ways of actualizing those Ideas, but both are directly related to the sensibilia or sensitive qualities. Our intent is to show how philosophy comes to have as indispensable the capacity that art has of putting us in contact with the differences in the sensible, which Deleuze calls transcendental empiricism under two fundamental implications: 1) the violence of involuntary encounters that make our faculties discordant, as a critic to the dogmatic way of thinking dominated by representation; 2) the philosophical research as a way of learning that puts the researcher in relationship with elements of a pre-individual vitality. We propose to divide our work in two stages: a pedagogy of the senses and a pedagogy of the concept. In the former, we make a genealogy of immanentist philosophical lineage which engenders our deleuzian concept of being of the sensible and of transcendental empiricism. In the latter, we investigate the relationships between art and philosophy in their acts of creation.