Event overview
In this paper I will look at how Deleuze develops a non-subjective understanding of freedom based around Chance.
Focusing on chapter IV of Difference and Repetition 'Ideas and the Synthesis of Difference', I will look at how it is the Idea itself that exhibits freedom, as it makes connections across diverse realms. This will involve a critical response of process readings of Deleuze in order to emphasize, what I regard as the neglected, empirical side of his project.
I will pay special attention to Deleuze's use of games, from the description of selection as a 'dice throw' to his comparison between the Divine Game and human games, such as Chess.
The main focus of Dr Brian Smith's research is on philosophies of the event, more specifically, those philosophers’ who develop the notion of multiple events.
This move to a philosophy of multiple events signals a return of what Heidegger would call metaphysics, but here the concept of systematic thought is no longer concerned with providing the ground for a totalizing system, but providing a ground (or grounds) for the production of novelty and the new. They are open in the sense that they are open to something happening, an event, which exceeds their systematic limits. It is here that something new and unpredictable can occur.
His recent research has concentrated on a specific division that seems to open up between philosophies of the event. This division is based on the tension between an event and the philosophical subject.
On the one side there are the more overtly political and moral approaches to a philosophy of the multiple event, two key protagonists being Badiou and Sartre. On the other side, in the work of Deleuze some process philosophies, such as Alfred North Whitehead’s, it is novelty and the production of the new that takes precedence.
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| 12 Mar 2013 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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