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Absolute, of a concept, 21
Abstract art: forces creating, 181; nature of, 198
Accumulation, point of, in concepts, 20
Adorno, negative dialectic and, 99
Agon as rule of a society of friends, 9
Allosteric enzymes, observers and observing and, 130, 227n12
America: philosophy in, 143; revolution in, turned out so badly, 100
Anaximander, 44; limit understood by, 120
Animism, biology and, 130
Another person, self relating to, 16
Antipathetic characters, as conceptual personae, 63
Aporia of Platonists, 148, 149
Aristocracy, future and, 108
Aristotle, opposable opinion in, 79
Art: abstract, nature of, 198; extracts affects, 24; artist and drugs in, 165; brain and, 211 –12; brings varieties from chaos, 202; chaos and, 202–7; color in, 181; planes of composition and immanence and, 66; composition in, 191–97; as composition of chaos, 204; conceptual, nature of, 198; deterritorialization in, 181; figures in, 66, 187, 196; finite in, 197–98; framing in, 198; infinite in, 197–98; the infinite in, 181; as language of sensation, 176; material in, 191–97; memory in, 167; nonart and, 218; extracts percepts, 24; philosophy and, of portrait, 55–57; progress in, 193; relationship of, to philosophy and science, 5; resemblance in, 166; sensation in, 179; thought in, 197–99; vibrations in, 168
Artaud, 109; on immanence, 49; thought and, 55
Association of ideas, meaning of, 201
Aternal, Péguy’s term of, defined, 111–12, 157
Atheism: in art, 194; figures versus concepts and thought in, 92
Athleticism in literature, 172
Attractors, strange or chaotic, 206, 233n7
Autobiography in novels, 170
Autochthon, the: deterritorialization and, 86, 98; for the Greeks, 101–2; and the stranger, 110, 223n1
Bacon, Francis (1909–), infinite in, 181
Badiou, Alain, on concepts and functions in, 151
Bakhtin, theory of the novel of, 188
Bartók, Béla, framing in, 191
Beast, the, as literary character, 174
Beaumarchais, P. A. C. de, 106
Becoming, 158; concepts and, 18, 20; diagnosis of, 113; as always double, 109, 110; does not belong to history, 96; philosophy as, 59
Beings: affects and percepts as, 164, 178; of sensation, 165
Belief, plane of immanence and, 53
Belonging: the other and, 46; to a subject required by concepts, 141
Berg, Alban, framing in, 191
Bergson, Emile: on the figure, 193; musical beings in, 190; on opinion, 174
Bergson, Henri L.: functions and, 157; functives and concepts and, 132; immanence and, 48–49; on observers and observing, 227n14; on problems, 81
Berlioz, L. H., material in composition and, 195
Biology: functions in, 117; molecular, 130
Biran, plane of immanence and, 51
Blanchot, Maurice: on the event, 156–57; on meaning of “friend,” 4, 5
Body, a thing becomes, 122
Bonnard, Pierre, 175; forces in, 182
Boulez, Pierre, material in composition and, 195
Brain: art as, 211–12; branching and, 215, 216; from chaos to the, 201–18; conceptual personae and, 211; equipotentiality and, 210–11; Erwin Straus on, 216; force and, 211; Gestalt theory and, 208, 210; habits and, 213; individuation and, 215; mind as, 211; old age and, 214; paradigms of, 216; phenomenology and, 209; philosophy and, 212–14; as junction of three planes of art, philosophy, and science, 208, 210–11, 216–17; Ruyer on 210; science and, 209–10, 215–16; soul and, 211; synapses and, 216; Thought-brain and, 210; variations and, 210
Branching, chaos and brain and, 215, 216
Braudel, F.: on development of capitalism, 98; geophilosophy from his point of view, 95–96
Brothers or friends, modern society of, 102, 107
Butler, Samuel, utopia and, 100
Cache, Bernard, framing in, 187
Cage, J. M., material in composition and, 195
Capitalism, 149; cynicism of, 146; democracy and, 97, 98; development of 95, 97, 98, 99, 100; disaster of, 12; market as universal in, 106; territorialization in, 68
Cartesian coordinates, 129
Cézanne, Paul, 167; enigma of, 167; against impressionists, 165; planes in, 179; struggle with chaos by, 203
Chaoid: definition of, 208; as variety in art, 204–5
Chaos: and art, philosophy, and science, 202–15; art and, 202–7; art as composition of, 204;attitudes toward, and science and philosophy, 117–18; branching and, 215, 216; Cezanne and, 203; chaoid and, 108, 204–5; consistency undone by, 42; defined as infinite speed of birth and disappearance, 118; Fontana and, 204; from, to the brain, 201–18; plane of immanence and, 42, 50, 51; individuation and, 215; interference and, 217; Joyce and, 204; Klee and, 203; Monet and, 204; nature and, in science, 206; opinions and, 206; fixed opinions and, 201; philosophy and, 207–8; physics and, 206; science and, 155–56, 205–6; Soutine and, 204; Staël and, 205; strange attractors and, 206, 233n7; thinking and, 208; Turner and, 205; variables and, 202; variations and, 202; varieties and, 202; the virtual, 118, 122; Wordsworth and, 203
Chateaubriand, F. R. de, in old age, 2
Chestov, Leon, on Dostoyevski, 62
Chinese thought, figures versus concepts and, 91
Chopin, F. F., framing in, 190
Christianity in Europe, 98
Christian philosophy, immanence and, 44
Cities: capitalism and, 99; contribution to philosophy, 4; Greek philosophy and, 145; philosophy and, 99; as territorial, 85–113, 86
Claimant, the, as conceptual persona, 4, 72
Clinch, the, sensation and, 168
Cogito (Cartesian): conceptual personae and, 61; illustrated, 25; plane of immanence and, 46; precursors of, 26; as signed enunciation, 24–27; see also Descartes
Cogito (Husserlian), plane of immanence and, 46
Cogito (Kantian), 125; plane of immanence and, 46; transcendental plane of, 31–32
Coincidence, point of, in concepts, 20
Color: in art and the infinite, 181; tons rompus, 179n
Communication: as illusion, 49; imitators in art and, 204; intersubjectivity of, as figure of philosophy, 92; phenomenological era and, 47; not philosophy, 6, 28–29; as universal, 15
Competition, philosophy and, 146
Components of concepts, 19–20
Composition, plane of: aesthetic, 192–97; of art and the plane of immanence, 66; conceptual personae and, 65; enjoyment and, 212; Jan van Eyck and, 192; junction of three planes in brain and, 208, 210–11, 216–17; painting and, 192–97; symphonic, 185; technical, 192–97; Vincent van Gogh, 192; Xavier de Langlais and, 192; see also Composition
Comprehension of concept, 137
Concept(s): affects and percepts and, 163–99; as an entity, 21; as an hecceity, 21; atheism and, 92; Badiou on, 151; becoming and, 18, 20; Bergson and, 132; bridge and, 19; Chinese thought and, 91; components of, 19–20; comprehension of, 137; concept of, 19; consistency of, 19, 144; constructivism and, 7, 22; irregular contours of, 15–16; Descartes and, 24, 29–32; determinable plane and, 19; as element presented by philosophy, 76; as not eternal, 27; as event, 21, 144, 158, 160–61; extension of, 136; versus figures, 91; figures as part of, 11; as fragmentary whole, 16, 23; as part of nonfragmentary whole, 35; Frege and, 135; functions and functives and, 117–33. 150–53, 161–62; of the same group (definition), 58; Hegel and, 11, 12; related to plane of immanence, 36; as incorporeal, 21; threshold of indiscernibility of, 19; intension of, 136; as inventions, 5; as knowledge, 33; “the lived” and, 34, 141; logic and, 135; multiplicities and, 24, 127, 152; nature of, 15–34; Nietzsche on, 5, 7; omnitudo and, 35; One-All and, 35; other person and, 19; pedagogical status of, 32; percepts and, 163–99; philosopher as friend of, 5; in philosophy, 2–12; philosophy extracts, 24; philosophy’s exclusive right to create, as its function, 8; as correlative of plane, 35; Plato and Platonism and, 6, 29–30; post-Kantians and, 11; connect to problems, 16, 133; prospects and, 135–62; lacks reference, 143–44; rivals seized creation of, from philosophy, 10; Bertrand Russell and, 135; Schelling and, 11; science and, 33, 128, 143; as sensibilia, 5, 131; set of elements of, 136; as signed, 7; versus the simulacrum, 9–10; situation and, 151; plurality of, and subjects, 16; as surface, 21; temporality of, 27–28; thinking and, 198; three ages of, 12; as variations, 20, 133, 207–8; vibrations and, 23; as a volume, 21; well-made, 77; of the first zone, 140; of the second zone, 140; of the third zone, 140–41, 143; zone of neighborhood of, 19; see also Conceptual persona(e); Immanence, plane of
Concepts of the same group, 58
Conceptual art, nature of, 198
Conceptual persona(e), 2, 2n; aesthetic figures and, 177; antipathetic characters as, 63; appears for himself rarely, 63; brain and, 211; Cartesian cogito and, 61; claimant as, 4, 72; deterritorialization and, 67–68; diagrammatic features and, 75; dialogues and, 63; Diogenes Laertius creating, 72; disgust and, 77; dynamic features and, 71; as element presented by philosophy, 76; empiricist conversion and, 75; entity and, 3; enunciation and, 64–65; essence as, 3; as events, 110; exile as, 67; existential features and, 72; friend as, 3–4, 69; meaning of “friend” as, 3–4; friendship and, 4, 5; gambler of Pascal as, 74; God and, 74; Greek philosophy and, 2–5; Guérin and, 66; heteronyms of philosopher and, 64; homecomer as, 67; idiot as, 61–62, 221n1; imagination and, 77; plane of immanence and, 63; innocent as, 72; judge as, 69; juridical features and, 72; Kant and, 72; Kierkegaard and, 66, 71; Kleist and, 71; “knight of the faith” of Kierkegaard as, 74; legislator as, 69; lover as, 4; migrant as, 67, 98; music and aesthetic figures and, 65; native as, 67; nature of, 61–83; Nietzsche and, 65; noumenon and, 65; in the novel, 65; objectality and, 3, 4n; in paintings, 65; pathic features and, 70; phenomenon and, 65; Philalethes as friend as, 3; in philosophy, 2–12; plaintiff as, 72; plane of composition and, 65; proper names as, 24; psychosocial types and, 67, 70; reason and, 77; relational features and, 70; repulsive characters as, 63; reterritorialization and, 67–68; rival as, 4; schoolman as, 62; in sculpture, 65; as sensibilia, 131; social fields and, 68; societies of friends or equals and, 4; Socrates as, for Platonism, 63, 65; Stammerer as, 69; stranger as, 69; as subject of philosophy, 64; surfer as, 71; taste and, 77, 78, 133; territory and, 67–68; Theophilus as friend as, 3; thing as, 4; as thinkers, 69; third party as, 4; thought and, 4–5; Thought-Being and, 65; thought-events and, 70; transient as, 67; universe and, 65, 177; see also Concept (s)
Concettism, Italy and Spain and, 103
Condensation, point of, in concepts, 20
Consistency: chaos undoes, 42; of concepts, 19, 22, 126, 137; element presented by philosophy, 77
Constructivism: concepts and, 7; conceptual personae and, 75; disqualifies all discussion, 82; philosophy as a, 35–36; relative and absolute of concepts and, 22; three activities constituting, 81; two different qualitative aspects of, 35–36
Contemplation: Eidetic era and, 47; as illusion, 49; objectality of, as figure of philosophy, 92; philosophy not, 6; sensation as pure, 212; as universal, 15
Continuum in set theory, 120
Conversation: discussion, 28–29, 79; and thought, 140
Counterpoint: framing in art and, 187; in literature, 188
Creating, member of philosophical trinity, 77
Critical era, universal of reflection and, 47
Damisch, Hubert, material in composition and, 193, 195
Danger, new meaning of, with pure immanence, 42
Death, assimilated to, 161
Debussy, Claude, material in composition and, 195
Delirium, plane of immanence and, 53
Democracy: capitalism and, 97, 98, 106; development of, 97; future and, 110; majorities and, 108; realization and new models of, 106; social, 107
Dhotel, André, characters of, 173
Diagnosis of becoming, 113
Diagrammatic features: conceptual personae and, 75; of plane of immanence, 39–40
Dialectic: claims of, 80; Greeks use of, 147; meaning of, 79
Dialogues, conceptual personae and, 63
Dictatorship, realization and new models of, 106
Diogenes Laertius, conceptual personae and, 72
Discontinuity, thresholds of, 119
Discursiveness as illusion, 50
Discussion: conversation, 140; not philosophy, 28–29, 79
Disgust, conceptual personae and, 77
Distension, sensation and, 168
Division, sensation and, 168
Dos Pasos, John R., counterpoint and sensation in, 188
Dostoyevski, F. M., idiot of, 62
Doyle, A. C, on earth’s nervous system, 213
Drugs, artists aided by, 165
Dubuffet, Jean: house in, 186; material in composition and, 194
Dynamic features, conceptual personae and, 71
Earth: nervous system of, 213; thinking in relation to, 85
Eidetic era, universal of contemplation and, 47
Einstein, Albert: demon of, 129; nature of science and, 124, 125
Embrace, sensation and, 168
Empiricism: knows only events, 48; plane of immanence and, 53; radical, and immanence, 47
Empiricist conversion, conceptual personae and, 75
English philosophy: geophilosophy and, 102–6; Greek philosophy and, 105
Enjoyment, sensation and, 212
Enlightenment, plane of immanence and, 53
Entity: a concept as an, 21; conceptual personae and, 3
Enunciation: conceptual personae and, 64–65; mode of, in differentiating science and philosophy, 127; propositions and, 23
Equals, societies of friends or, 4
Equipotentiality, and brain, 210–11
Error(s): plane of immanence and, 52, 53; Plato and, 52; sublime, 164
Essence, Plato’s “friend” of, as conceptual persona, 3
Eternal: illusion of, 49; not property of concepts, 27–28
Europe and Europeans: history of capitalism and, 108; psychosocial aspects of, 97–98
Exile, the, as conceptual persona, 67
Existential features, conceptual personae and, 72
Experimentation: is philosophical, 110; thinking as, 110
Extension of a concept, 136
Fabulation: as action of the monument, 168; creative, 171; as visionary faculty, 230n8
Face, the: as concept, 19; and the other person, 17
Fatherland, territorialization and, 68
Faulkner, William, 169, 175; as monumental novelist, 172
Faye, Jean-Pierre, on creation of word “philosopher,” 87
Features: intensive, of concepts, 20, 39; pathic, and conceptual personae, 70
Fechner, G. T., on earth’s nervous system, 213
Figures, 153; aesthetic, 65, 175; aesthetic, and conceptual personae, 65, 177; function in arts, 66, 196; concept consisting of, 11; versus concepts, 91; geometric, in art, 187; of philosophy, 92; as referential, 89; thinking through, 3, 89
Flesh and fleshism: being of sensation and, 231n17; in literature, 178–80
Fogs from plane of immanence, 51, 160
Fontana, art from chaos and, 204
Fontenelle, error and, 52
Forces: brain and, 211; in painting, 182
Form in itself, brain and, 210, 211
Foucault, Michel, 113; the actual and, 112; plane of immanence and, 51
Frankfurt School, and utopia, 99
Free opinion, philosophical problems and, 79
Frege, G., concepts into functions in logic and, 135
French philosophy, geophilosophy and, 102–6
Friend, the: as conceptual persona and philosophy’s origins, 2–3; meaning of, as conceptual persona, 3–4, 69
Friendship, conceptual personae and, 4, 5
Friends or brothers, modern society of, 4, 102, 107
Functives: concepts and, 117–33; as elements of functions, 117; as limits and variables, 118; see also Functions
Fuzzy sets: as aggregates of perceptions and affections, 141, 228n5; as hinge between forms of concepts, 143
Gambler, the, of Pascal as conceptual persona, 74
Gauguin, Paul, infinite in, 181
Geometries: Cartesian coordinates and, 129; Euclidean, 122–23, 124; Riemannian, 124
Geophilosophy, 85–113; Nietzsche founded, 102
German philosophy: geophilosophy and, 102–9; Greek philosophy and, 101
Gestalt theory, brain and, 208, 210
Giacometti, A.: planes in, 180; on style, 171
Global, the, state of affairs and, 157
God, belief in, and conceptual personae, 74
Gödel’s theorem, consistency and, 121, 137
Goethe, J. W. von, on color, 161
Granger, Gilles-Gaston, on concepts in science, 33, 128, 143
Greco, El, chaos and, 205
Greece, fractal structure of, 87
Greek philosophy: city and, 145; conceptual persona and, 2–5; English philosophy and, 105; free opinion and, 79; “friends’ and, 3; geophilosophy and, 85–113; German philosophy and, 101; idea of science of, 147; image of thought and, 54; Nietzsche on, 43–44; opinion and, 146–50; origins of, and philosophy, 3. 4, 9, 94–97, 99; philosophy as, 43, 93; plane of, 44; territory and development of, 86–87
Guérin, Michel, conceptual personae and, 66
Hantï, material in composition and, 195
Harmonies as affects, 164
Hecceity, a concept as an, 21
Hegel, G. W. F.: concept not an abstract as shown by, 12; concept of interest to, 11; development of philosophy by, 94–95; opposable opinion as contradiction in, 79; variables and, 122
Heidegger, M.: development of philosophy by, 94–95; Nazism and, 108–9; portrait of, 56
Heisenberg, W. K., demon and observers of, 129
Heterogenesis of a concept, 20
Heteronyms of philosopher, conceptual personae as, 64
Hierarchical, figure as, 89
Historical point of view, giving up, 58
Historicism: of Hegel and Heidegger, 95; multiplicity of planes and, 50
History, 140; grasp of, 110; as negative conditions, 111
Hölderlin on Autochthon of Greeks, 101, 224n14
Homecomer, the, as conceptual persona, 67
Homeland, territorialization and, 68
Horizons, observer and, 220n(2):2
Human rights: as axioms, 107; geo-philosophy and, 103–4; mystifications of, 225n18; three lands of, 106
Hume, David, 54; on beliefs and causality, 214; empiricism and, 53–54; on habit, 213
Husserl, Edmund, 149; cogito of, 46; on groups and territorialization, 97–98; the other and, 46; roots of acts of transcendence in, 142; thought as original intuition and, 85
“I”: only meaning of as linguistic index, 17; as past world, 18; self and, 32
Ideas: association of, and meaning of, 201; as images, 207; as philosophical concepts, 9
Ideography of figures peculiar to science, 125
Idiot, the: as conceptual persona, 61–62, 221n1; of Dostoyevski, 62; new and old, 62–63
Illusion(s): becoming and, 59; discursiveness as, 50; eternal as, 49; plane of immanence surrounded by, 49; of transcendence, 73
Imagination, conceptual personae and, 77
Immanence, plane of: belief and, 53; chaos and, 42, 50, 51; cogito and, 46; plane of composition, 66; related to concepts, 36; conceptual personae and, 63; delirium and, 53; deterritorialization and, 88–89; diagrammatic features of, 39–40; empiricism and, 53; enlightenment and, 53; error and, 52, 53; facets of thought and nature, 38; fogs from, 51, 160; Greek philosophy and invention of absolute and, 90; holes in, 51; illusion and, 49, 59; as image, 37; inference and, 53; junction of three planes in brain and, 208, 210–11, 216–17; Kant and, 57; nature as facet of, 38; nature of, 35–60; Neo-Kantians and, 57; neo-Platonism and, 44, 57; as absolute ground of philosophy, 41, 125–26; portrait of (illustrated), 56–57; as prephilosophical, 40; superimposition and, 59; image of thought and, 37, 61; transcendence and, 47, 59; see also Composition, plane of; Concept(s); Movement(s); Reference, plane of
Immunology, observers and observing and, 130, 227n12
Impressionists, 165; Cézanne against, 165
Incorporeal, a concept as, 21
Indiscernibility: events and, 158; in literature, 173; threshold of, of concepts, 19
Individuation, brain and chaos and, 215
Inference, plane of immanence and, 53
Infinite, the: in art, 180–81; versus limit, 120
Infinite movement, thinking and being and, 38
Infinity of a concept, 21
Innocent, the, as conceptual persona, 72
Insistence as element presented by philosophy, 76
Instituting, plane of, 220n6
Intension, 40; of a concept, 136
Intensive features, of concepts, 20, 39
Interesting, the, as production of thought, 140
Inventing, as member of philosophical trinity, 77
Italy, philosophy of, 102–3
Jaffe, Shirley, interference and chaos in, 217
Jaspers, K. T.: on Nietzsche’s ideas, 21–22; plane of immanence in, 47
Joyce, James, chaos and, 204
Judge, the, as conceptual persona, 69
Jullien, François, on transcendence in Chinese thought, 74, 92
Juridical features, conceptual personae and, 72
Kafka, Franz: the animal in, 184; death in, 171
Kandinsky, Wassily: forces in, 182; internal silence of, 218; sensation in, 183
Kant, Immanuel: categories of subject and object and, 85; cogito of, 31–32, 46, 125; conceptual personae and, 72; empiricism and, 53–54; error and, 52; plane of immanence and, 57; in old age, 2; opposable opinion in, 79; portrait of (illustrated), 56; post-Kantians, 11; on revolution, 100, 112; stocking-suspender anecdote of, 72; subject as transcendental in, 142; see also Cogito (Kantian)
Kierkegaard, Søren: conceptual personae and, 66, 71; immanence and, 73, 74; transcendence and, 73, 74
Klee, Paul, 165, 217, 218; monuments in art and, 196; struggle with chaos by, 203
Kleist: conceptual personae and, 71; thought and, 55; wrote with affects, 169
“Knight of the faith” of Kierkegaard as conceptual persona, 74
Knowledge, nature of as function, 215
Kupka: forces in, 182; sensation in, 183
Landscapes: mental, slow to change, 58; visionary characteristic of, 230n6
Langlais, Xavier de, on plane of composition in painting, 192
Language, the other person and, 17
Lautman, interference and mathematics and, 217
Law, state of, and reterritorialization, 106
Lawrence: death in, 171; poetry described by, 203
Laying out, as member of philosophical trinity, 77
Legislator, the, as conceptual persona, 69
Leibniz, G. W., 130, 153; on his concepts, 22; Michel Serres on, 205; the other person and, 17; on soul, 212
Levi, Primo, on Nazism and shame, 106–7
Liberalism, search for universal liberal opinion and, 146
Limit(s): functives as, 118; versus infinite, 120
Liszt, Franz, framing in, 190
Lived, the: concept of, belongs only to philosophy, 34; concepts as functions of, 141; definition of, 33–34; literature and, 170; science and, 33–34
Local, the, state of affairs and, 157
Logic: in American philosophy, 143; always defeated by itself, 139; nature of, 135–43; paradigm of, 138; idea of, by philosophy, 22; philosophy versus, 141; of propositions and GodePs theorem, 139; differs from psychology, 139; as necessarily reductionist, 135; transcendental, 142
Lover, the, as conceptual persona, 4
Mad, the, paintings of, 165
Mahler, G., framing in, 191
Maldiney, phenomenology and, 149
Mallarmé, S.: event and, 159–60; interference in, 217
Market: philosophy and the, 146; as universal in capitalism, 106; world, and inequalities of development, 106
Marx, Karl and Marxism: capitalism and, 97; territorialization in, 68
Mathematics, 205; functions in, 117; metamathematics, 138
Matisse, Henri, the universe and French windows in, 180
Maxwell, J. C, demon of, 129, 130
Mechanism, critique against, 233n11
Mediocre, the, as literary character, 174
Mendeleyev, D. I, table of, 123
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, phenomenology and, 149
Messiaen: forces in, 182; personnages rhythmiques, 2, 169
Michaux: on ideas, 207; plane of immanence of, 41–42
Migrant, the, as conceptual persona, 67, 98
Miller, Henry: gigantic characters in, 172; wrote of his own life, 170
Mind: brain as, 211; immanence and, 44
Molecular biology, observers and observing and, 130
Mondrian, Piet: framing in, 188; interference in, 217; material in composition and, 194; sensation in, 183
Monet, Claude, 165; chaos and house of, 204; the universe and houses in, 180
Movement(s): infinite, thinking and being and, 38; negative, on plane of immanence, 74, 76; positive, on plane of immanence, 76
Multiplicity: concept and function of, 127, 152; as concept in Cartesian cogito, 24; of planes, 50; theory of two types of, 226n9; intersection of two types of, 159
Music: aesthetic figures in, and conceptual personae, 65; animals in, 185; counterpoint and sensation in, 189; framing in, 189–91; material in composition and, 195; minor mode of, 165
National characteristics, philosophy and, 104
Nationalitarianisms, geophilosophy and, 104
National philosophies, validity of, 93
Native, the, as conceptual persona, 67
Naturalism, characters in, 174
Nature: chaos and, in science, 206; as facet of plane of immanence, 38
Nazism, responsibility for, 106–8
Negative movements on plane of immanence, 74, 76
Neighborhood of concepts, 19
Neo-Kantians, plane of immanence and, 57
New concept of time in, 32
Newton, Isaac, 162; nature of science and, 124, 125
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 107, 109, 112, 113, 130; on bad conscience, 83; concepts and, 5, 7; conceptual personae and, 65; “four great errors” specified by, 49; founded geophilosophy, 102; on Greek philosophy, 43–44, 96; interference in, 217; Jasper on ideas of, 21–22; portrait of, 56; thought as creation in, 54
No, the, relation to disciplines of, 218
Noland, interference and chaos in, 217
Nonphilosophy, philosophy and, 218
Nonscience, science and, 218
Noologists, immanence and, 44
Noumenon (Thought-Being), conceptual personae and, 65
Novel, the (literary): aesthetic figures in, 65; affects and percepts and, 167–68, 170–76; journalistic, 170
Numbers, function’s theory dependent on, 119
Object: of the perceptual field, 18; plane of immanence and, 51; poor category for thought, 85
Objectality, conceptual personae and, 3, 3n, 4n
Objectivity, presuppositions of, 27
Old age: brain and, 214; as impossible value, 219n2
Omnitudo, concepts included in, 35
One, the, immanence and, 44
One-All: concepts included in, 35; fractal nature of, 38; immanence absorbs, 45; nonphilosophical, 220n5; variable curvature of, 38
Opinion(s): affections and, 174; struggle against chaos of, 206; definition of, 144, 145–46; democratic public and, 225n18; fixed, and chaos, 201; Greeks and, 147–48; truth value of opposable, 79
Ordered pairs, functions and, 135
Ordinates, intensive, of concepts, 20, 40
Orient, development of philosophy and, 94–95
Other, the: creation of philosophy by Greeks and, 3, 4; other person always perceived as, 18; see also Other person, the
Other person, the: concept of, 19; always perceived as an other, 18; possible worlds and, 17; relation to the self of, 16; transcendence and, 48; see also Other, the
Painting: aesthetic figures in, 65; affects and percepts and, 165–68; plane of composition and, 192–97; needs power of a ground, 173; sensation in, 177–84
Paradigm(s): of brain, 216; figure as, 89; of logic, 138; nature of science and, 124, 125
Paradox, philosophy’s nature as, 80, 82
Particles as specified in terms of limits, 119
Pascal: immanence and, 73, 74; transcendence and, 73, 74
Pathic features, conceptual personae and, 70
Pedagogies: of the concept, 219n8; relevant “No”s and, 218
Personnages rhythmiques, 2n
Pervert, the, literary character of, 174
Pessoa: affects and percepts and, 167; sensation in, 167
Phases of a variation of a concept, 25
Phenomenology: affect and percept and, 178; in American philosophy, 143; brain and, 209; era of, and universal of communication, 47; opinion and, 149–50
Phenomenon (Universe), conceptual personae and, 65
Philalethes, “friend” as conceptual persona and, 3
Philosopher, the: origin of, 3; versus the sophist, 9
Philosophical trinity, 77
Philosophy: American, 143; as becoming, 59; brain and, 212–14; brings variations from chaos, 202; chaos and, 207–8; not communication, 28–29; not communication, contemplation, or reflection, 6; concept-creation as exclusive right of, 8; concepts and unity of, 8; concepts central to, 2, 5; concepts extracted by, 24; conceptual personae as subject of, 64; consistency as problem of, 42; as a constructivism, 35–36; contemplation not, 6; contingent and synthetic nature of, 93; in permanent crisis, 82; definition of, 2, 5, 7; discussions not appropriate to, 28–29; presents three elements, 76–78; event as sole aim of, 160; three figures of, 92; the friend and, 2–4, 69; geophilosophy and, 85–113; all of, as Greek or not, 43; history of, and art of the portrait, 55–57; history of, and time, 58; plane of immanence as absolute ground of, 41, 125–26; immanence creates, 43; concept of “the lived” belongs only to, 34; logic’s infantile idea of, 22; logic versus, 141; national, and religion, 223n5; national, validity of, 93; nature of, inquiry into, 1–12; nonphilosophy and, 218; object of, 5; paradoxical by nature, 80; plane of, and interference, 218; first principle of, 7; problem of, as consistency, 42; reflection not, 6; relationship of, to art and science, 5; rules unusable to judge in, 82; schizophrenia and, 70; speaks of science as illusion, 161; science differs from, 117–18, 125–28, 132–33; proceeds by sentences, 24; thought in, 197–99; utopia as politicizing, 99–100; see also Art; Chaos; Concept(s); Greek philosophy; Immanence, plane of; Individual philosophers and philosophies; Logic; Opinion(s); Science; Transcendence
Physicalists, immanence and, 44
Physico-mathematical field as state of affairs, 159
Plaintiff, the, as conceptual persona, 72
Plato and Platonism, 112; Agon and, 9–10; concepts of, 6, 29–30; error and, 52; ideas of, 6, 29–30; limit understood by, 120; opinion and, 147–49; opposable opinion in, 79; Parmenides of, 29, 69; plane of immanence and, 44, 57; Socrates as conceptual persona of, 63, 65; see also Neo-Platonism
Plotinus, all things as contemplation in, 212
Populism, future and, 108
Portrait, the, art of the, history of philosophy and, 55–56
Positive movements, on plane of immanence, 76
Possible worlds, other person and, 17, 18
Post-Kantians: concept as pure subjectivity to, 11; concept of interest to, 11
Potential, chaotic virtual and, 122
Pragmatism: democratic revolution and, 103; question posed by, 106
Prephilosophical plane: defined, 41; as element presented by philosophy, 76; Greek philosophers and, 44; interference and, 218; plane of immanence as, 40
Pre-Socratic philosophers, 223n3; scientific understanding of, 126–27; treat physical like conceptual, 90–91
Problem(s): concepts and, 16, 133; distinguishing philosophical from scientific, 79, 133; scientific, 42, 133
Projective, figures as, 89
Proper names: as conceptual personae, 24; as designating partial observers, 24; differentiating fundamentally between science and philosophy with, 128; problem of, 136
Propositions: functions as, in discursive systems, 117; as objective of science, 117
Prospects: concepts and, 135–62; as propositions with an information value, 138; science extracts, 24; types of, 155
Proust, Marcel: affects and percepts and, 167, 175; conceptual personae and, 71; counterpoint and sensation in, 188, 189; forces in, 182; monuments and, 177
Psychology differs from logic, 139
Psychosocial types, conceptual personae and, 67, 70
Public opinion, democratic, 225n18
Pythagoras, limit understood by, 120
Quantum physics, subjectivist interpretations of, 129–30
Radical empiricism, immanence and, 47
Rameau, J. P., on identity of harmonies and affect, 164
Reason: conceptual personae and, 77; as impoverished concept, 43
Referential, figure as, 89
Reflection: critical era and, 47; as illusion, 49; philosophy not, 6; subject of, as figure of philosophy, 92; as universal, 15
Relational features, conceptual personae and, 70
Relationships of art, philosophy, and science, 5
Relative of a concept, 21
Relativism: multiplicity of planes and, 50; scientific, 130
Relativity, Einsteinian, subjectivist interpretations of, 129–30
Religion: deterritorialization and, 88–90; transcendence and, 43
Repulsive characters as conceptual personae, 63
Repulsive concepts on plane of immanence, 76
Reserve, event as pure, 156
Revolution: Kant and, 100; philosophy and, 100–101
Riemannian space, interference in, 217
Rival, the, as conceptual persona, 4
Rossellini, giving up literature and, 170
Rules, inability to judge philosophically using, 82
Russell, Bertrand: concepts into functions in logic and, 135; set of all sets and, 121, 131
Sage, the, death of, and birth of the philosopher, 3
Sartre, J., immanence and, 47
Scarpa, material in composition and, 195
Schelling, F. W. J. von: concept of interest to, 11; on Greeks, 101–2
Schizophrenia, philosophy and, 70
Schoolman, the, as conceptual personae, 62
Schopenhauer, A., portrait of, 56
Schumann, C. J., framing in, 190
Schwitters, Kurt, coined Merz, 11n
Science: brain and, 209–10, 215–16; brain as junction of three planes of art, philosophy, and, 208, 210–11, 216–17; brings variables from chaos, 202; chaos and, 117–18, 155–56, 205–6; chaos and art and philosophy and, 202–15; concepts and, 33, 128, 143; as a vast doxology, 155; Einstein and nature of, 124, 125; enunciation and, 127; extracts prospects, 24; figures and, 125; functions and, 16, 33, 117; functions as objective of, 117; Granger on concepts in, 33, 128, 143; Greek philosophy and, 147; the lived and, 33–34; nature, and chaos, 206; Newton and nature of, 124, 125; nonscience and, 218; observers and observing in, 129, 130–32; paradigms and nature of, 124, 125; philosophy differs from, 117–18, 125–28, 132–33; pre-Socratic philosophers and, 126–27; problem of, 42; problems and, 42, 79, 133; proper names and, 128; propositions of, as signed, 23, 117; proceeds with plane of reference, 118, 125–26; relationship of, to art and philosophy, 5; relativism and, 130; seeing in, 128–32; slowing down and, 118; speaks of philosophy as of a cloud, 161; state of affairs and, 126–27, 156; subjectivist interpretations of, 129–30; thought in, 197–99; variables brought from chaos by, 202; see also Reference, plane of; States of affairs
Scientific relativism, 130
Sculpture: aesthetic figures in, and conceptual personae, 65; affects and percepts and, 167–68
Self: “I” and, 32; relation of, to another person, 16
Semiology, affects and, 175
Sensibilia: as concepts, 5, 131, 132; of the function, 132
Sentences: philosophy proceeds by, 24; self-consistency of, 137; have no self-reference, 137
Serres, Michel, on Leibniz, 205
Seurat, G. P.: framing in, 188; material in composition and, 194
Shame: one of philosophy’s powerful motifs, 108; Primo Levi on, and Nazism, 106–7
Shutting off, in framing, 190
Simon, Claude, affects and, 175
Simulacrum versus the concept, 9–10
Situation, the, concepts and functions and, 151
Slowing down: primordial, 119; science and, 118
Social fields: conceptual persona and, 68; extension of, 97
Societies of friends or equals, conceptual personae and, 4
Socrates as conceptual persona of platonism, 63, 65
Sophist, the, 147; versus the philosopher, 9, 147
Soul: brain and, 211; Leibniz on, 212
Soutine, Chaim, chaos and houses of, 204
Soviet revolution turned out so badly, 100
Spain, philosophy in, 102–3
Speech and the other person, 17
Spinoza, Baruch, 154, 207; as Christ of philosophers, 60; knew immanence only immanent to itself, 48; liking for battles between spiders, 72–73
Stammerer, the, as conceptual persona, 69
Standing up, creative compound and, 164
States: modern democratic, and philosophy, 102; as territorial, 86
States of affairs: as derivative functions, 122; as functions, 155; of scientific functions, 125, 153; local and global and, 157; intimate mixtures and, 226n8
Stopping, principle of, in set theory, 121
Stranger, the: the autochthon and, 110, 223n7; as conceptual persona, 69; deterritorialization and celestial, 86
Stratigraphie time, 58, 124
Straus, Erwin: on brain, 216; phenomenology and, 149
Stravinsky, I. F., material in composition and, 195
Subject: lived, 141–42; perceptual field of the, 18; plane of immanence and, 51, 142; as poor category for thought, 85
Subjectivist interpretations in science, 129–30
Subjectivity, presuppositions of, 27
Superimposition, plane of immanence and, 59
Surfer, the, as conceptual persona, 71
Survey, state of, of a concept, 20, 21, 209
Syntagm, nature of philosophy as, 124, 125
Taste: conceptual personae and, 77, 78, 133; in Nietzsche, 222n9
Temporality of concepts, 27–28
Theophilus, “friend” as conceptual persona and, 3
Thermodynamics, subjectivist interpretations of, 129–30
Thing, the: as conceptual persona, 4; model of the, 163–64; state of affairs and a, 122
Thinking: confronting chaos with, 208; as deterritorialization, 88; as experiment, 110; thought through concepts as, 198; see also Thought
Third party, the, as conceptual persona, 4
Thought: in art, philosophy, and science, 197–99; as creation, 54–55; dangers in, 199; as facet of plane of immanence, 38; image of, and fact and right, 37; image of, and plane of immanence, 37, 61; infinite speed as problem of, 36; thinking as, through concepts, 198; truth’s relation to, 54; see also Thinking
Thought-Being (noumenon), conceptual personae and, 65
Thought-brain, brain and, 210
Thought-events, conceptual personae and, 70
Thought-nature, logic and, 140
Time: new, as part of Kant’s cogito, 32; philosophical, 59; stratigraphie, 58
Tinguely, portraits of philosophers presented by, 55–56
Totalitarianism, realization and new models of, 106
Totalizations, as proto-beliefs or Urdoxa, 142
Transcendence: becoming and, 59; deterritorialization as, 88–89; illusions of, 73; immanence and, 47, 51; interruption of movement and, 221n9; movement of infinite and, 47
Transient, the, as conceptual persona, 67
Trinity, philosophical, 77
Truth: fuzzy sets and, 228n5; thought’s relation to, 54; value of, of opposable opinions, 79; will to, 54–55
Turner, J. M. W.: chaos and, 205; in old age, 2
“Turning toward”: as movement of thought toward truth, 38; truth defined as, 39
Undecidability, events and, 158
Universals: as ultimate concepts, 15; constructivism and, 82; illusion of, 49; philosophy and, 7
Universe: conceptual personae and, (phenomenon), 65, 177; created in literature, 180; figures and, in art, 196; see also Cosmos
Urdoxa, 206, 207, 210; as higher opinion, 80; original opinions as propositions as, 142; sensation and, 178
Utopia: not good concept, 110; philosophy becoming political and, 99–100
Van Eyck, Jan, and plane of composition, 192
Van Gogh, Vincent, 175; forces in, 182; infinite in, 181; plane of composition and, 192; as pure painter, 229n4; terror haunting, 170
Varèse, Edgard, material in composition and, 195
Variabilities, infinite and thought and, 201
Variations: brain and, 210; of concepts, 20, 133, 207–8; philosopher brings, from chaos, 202
Varieties, artist brings, from chaos, 202
Vibration(s): in art, 168; concepts as centers of, 23
Vinteuil, counterpoint and sensation in, 189
Vitalism, two possible interpretations of, 213
Void, the: event and, 151; in painting, 181–82; sensation in, 165
Whole, fragmentary and nonfragmentary concepts and, 16, 23, 35
Withdrawal, sensation and, 168
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, the other person and, 17–18, 219n(I):I
Wittgensteino-Heideggerianism, 143
Wolfe, Thomas: gigantic characters in, 171–72; wrote of his own life, 170
Wordsworth, William, chaos and, 203
Worlds, possible, other person and, 17, 18
Worringer, Wilhelm, 64n; on infinite in art, 182, 183
Zen Buddhism, logic as, 140
Zones of neighborhood of concepts, 19