The Multiplicity of Immanence: Gilles Deleuze’s Understanding and Application of Chinese Thought

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Contemporary French and Francophone Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI:10.1080/17409292.2024.2272518

Haitian Zhou

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Abstract Gilles Deleuze spends his whole life exploring the question of what philosophy is by unconventional approaches to establish the ontology of Becoming and he collaborates with Félix Guattari, integrating Chinese thought into his philosophical discourse directly to support the Becoming theory. Different from the tendency to associate Deleuze’s references to Tao with the philosophy of arts or body aesthetics, this paper argues Tao is introduced because of the consistency with the multiplicity of immanence raised by Deleuze who has updated the connotation of Western philosophical concepts with the help of Tao. Therefore, Tao is no longer defined as the ultimate Being claimed by some French sinologists and philosophers, but as an internal field or the Plane. Accordingly, it can be concluded that the immanence without any certainty (the multiplicity of immanence) itself is a kind of nomadic life, which is also the real meaning of Tao. In this way, Chinese philosophy’s function has far more significant than footnotes and evidence in the construction of Deleuze’s theory.

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无常的多重性：吉尔-德勒兹对中国思想的理解与运用

摘要德勒兹（Gilles Deleuze）一生都在探索 "哲学是什么 "的问题，他以非常规的方式建立了 "成为"（Becoming）本体论，并与费利克斯-瓜塔里（Félix Guattari）合作，将中国思想直接融入其哲学话语，以支持 "成为 "理论。不同于将德勒兹对 "道 "的提及与艺术哲学或身体美学联系起来的倾向，本文认为，"道 "的引入是由于与德勒兹提出的 "即在性 "的多重性相一致，德勒兹借助 "道 "更新了西方哲学概念的内涵。因此，"道 "不再被定义为一些法国汉学家和哲学家所宣称的终极存在，而是被定义为一种内部场域或平面。据此，可以得出结论，无确定性的即在性（即在性的多重性）本身就是一种游牧生活，这也是 "道 "的真正含义。由此可见，在德勒兹的理论建构中，中国哲学的作用远比注脚和证据更为重要。

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