Talk:New Philosophers
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[edit] Beyond Good and Evil citation
A citation was requested for the Beyond Good and Evil reference in the main article. Here is the relevant quote:
"For that investigation one must await the advent of a new order of philosophers, such as will have other tastes and inclinations, the reverse of those hitherto prevalent--philosophers of the dangerous "Perhaps" in every sense of the term. And to speak in all seriousness, I see such new philosophers beginning to appear."
That's from Chapter 1, section 2. -- noosphere 04:04, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The bit about Deleuze
"The movement was harshly criticized by Gilles Deleuze, who spoke of a return to the "big concepts" using dualist oppositions, something which his generation had struggled against."
Does this mean that Deleuze advocated a return to dualist oppositions, or that he was accusing the New Philosophers of doing so? Ireneshusband 03:54, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
He was accusing (in vain) the New Philosophers of doing so.... Gilles Deleuze eventually refuses the traditional "metaphysical" oppositions of philosophy (based on an "aut-aut" system), to embrace the postmodern habit of a "non linear", "different" kind of philosophy. The article is in some respects a kind of apology of deleuzian-postmodern "method", referring in the end to Pseudophilosophy, validating in a certain way, the accusation to the New Philosophers. The things are really the other way around: Deleuze was a peudophilosopher trying to dismiss real philosophical reasoning (which doesn't necessarily imply dualist oppositions: the New Philosophers aren't in fact dualist)....
