%0 Journal Article
%T DELEUZE¡¯S CRITIQUE OF REPRESENTATION BETWEEN POST-STRUCTURALISM AND SPECULATIVE REALISM
%A Jela£¿a
%A Matija
%J -
%D 2018
%X Sa£¿etak Gilles Deleuze¡¯s thought is uniquely placed at the interface of post-structuralism and the speculative/ontological turn which marked the humanities in general and continental philosophy in particular at the beginning of the twenty-first century. On the one hand, Deleuze shares with his post-structuralist contemporaries the commitment to Nietzsche¡¯s project of overturning Platonism and the critique of representation. On the other hand, while post-structuralism for the most part unfolded under the aegis of Heidegger¡¯s pronouncements on the end of philosophy and the overcoming of metaphysics, for Deleuze the critique of representation constitutes the necessary condition for the reaffirmation of philosophy¡¯s rights to metaphysical speculation. In this respect, Deleuze can be regarded as an important predecessor to the speculative/ontological turn. Therefore an engagement with Deleuze¡¯s thought presents an opportunity to better understand the current conjuncture in the humanities. This paper presents an account of Deleuze¡¯s critique of representation by tracing his argument against representation and in favour of intuitive knowledge and speculative metaphysics through a close reading of a few select and particularly revealing places in Deleuze¡¯s early writings. The conclusion then places this discussion of Deleuze¡¯s thought in the context of the recent turn in the humanities and continental philosophy away from post-structuralism and towards speculative realism
%K post-structuralism
%K Gilles Deleuze
%K critique of representation
%K intuitive knowledge
%K metaphysical speculation
%K speculative realism
%K speculative/ontological turn.
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