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180003 SE Gilles Deleuze: Overture to Spinoza (2011S)

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 18 - Philosophie
Continuous assessment of course work

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Details

max. 40 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 05.04. 11:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Tuesday 12.04. 11:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Tuesday 03.05. 11:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Tuesday 10.05. 11:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Tuesday 17.05. 11:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Tuesday 24.05. 11:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Tuesday 31.05. 11:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Tuesday 07.06. 11:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Tuesday 21.06. 11:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Tuesday 28.06. 11:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

I regard this seminar as a continuation and deepening of the lecture-seminar I held in the 2010-2011 Winter semester Do we know what a body can? Deleuze in Spinoza. Spinoza in Deleuze. (Knowledge of Deleuze and Spinoza is therefore necessary to attend this course.)
According to Deleuze, the notion of life has been spoiled by categories like good and evil, revenge and remuneration, sin and salvation.
Perhaps this statement in Deleuze’s small book Spinoza: Practical Philosophy shows best the perspective from which Deleuze is reading Spinoza’s Ethics. Spinoza is not at all a thinker who merely introduced the lifeless method of geometry into the field of ethical issues, but, in deconstructing the categories of good and evil, revenge and remuneration, sin and salvation, he stands precisely in the tradition of Nietzsche and Bergson: he is indeed a thinker of another notion of life.
With this in mind, we will read the following works of Deleuze as a kind of philosophical “life science”:
Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
Spinoza and the Problem of Expression in Philosophy
Pure Immanence: A Life

Assessment and permitted materials

The students participating in this seminar will be required to give a lecture on a selected part of Deleuze's work on Spinoza (about 30 minutes) and submit a written version afterwards (seminar work, about 15 pages.)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

1. Introduction to Spinoza's Ethics from the perspective of Gilles Deleuze's reading of his work.
2. Discussion of the notion of LIFE from the perspective of both Deleuze and Spinoza.
3. Analysis of the significance of these philosophers in the history of philosophy

Examination topics

Close reading of Deleuze's works on Spinoza:
Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
Spinoza and the Problem of Expression in Philosophy
Pure Immanence: A Life

Reading list

Spinoza, Baruch de: Sämtliche Werke, Ethik in Geometrischer Ordnung dargestellt (2), Wolfgang Bartuschat (Hg.), Felix Meiner Verlag: Hamburg 1995.
Deleuze, Gilles: Spinoza. Praktische Philosophie, Merve Verlag: Berlin 1988.
Deleuze, Gilles: Spinoza und das Problem des Ausdrucks in der Philosophie, Wilhelm Fink Verlag: München 1993.
Deleuze, Gilles: Pure Immanence. Essay on A Life, Zone Books: New York 2001.
Agamben, Giorgio: Barleby oder die Kontingenz gefolgt von Die absolute Immanenz, Merve Verlag: Berlin 1998.
Weitere Literatur wird im Laufe des Semesters bekannt gegeben.

Association in the course directory

MA M 4, § 4.1.7

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