Body and mind: conceptual alliances between Deleuze and Spinoza

Author(s)

Cintia Vieira da Silva

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• Defense date: 2007-08-31

Examining board members

Luiz Benedicto Lacerda Orlandi; Leopoldo Gabriel Thiesen; Hélio Rebello Cardoso Júnior; Andre Martins Vilar de Carvalho; Alexandre de Oliveira Henz

• Advisor: Luiz Benedicto Lacerda Orlandi

Abstract

This work¿s purpose is about showing the importance of Espinosa¿s philosophy on the elaboration of the Deleuzian thought. Considering that this thought is built upon multiple links between other thinkers related to the arts, science and philosophy, the link with Espinosa is studied on a privileged way. Such privilege is set according to the chosen spot: the relationship between body and mind. Other alliances are also presented, such as the one made with Bergson ¿ related to the creation of a new concept of image as a starting point for a new image of thought; and also the one linked with Artaud, connected to a concept of the body that surpasses the limits of the organic.The relationship between body and thought on the Deleuzian philosophy is set upon standards of equality that consider the body as a local where the genesis of thought can be determined. At the same time it is a conception of thought and body that defines them on reciprocal presupposition: there is no unembodied thought and there is no body that does not bring problems for thought (AU)