Abstract
Gilles Deleuze's critical reception of Plato´s philosophy is developed under the formula of its reversal, the task Nietzsche entrusted future philosophy with. But what does this reversal mean? Deleuze's reversal of Platonism has been widely discussed. Most of the studies focus mainly on “Platon et le simulacre”, where Deleuze characterizes reversal on the basis of the concept of simulacrum, and his further elaboration in Difference and repetition. An aspect of reversal that has not been considered so far is Deleuze's reversal of the Platonic image of thought, which is expressed through his critical reading of Plato's theory of anamnesis. In our paper we show that this criticism is a fundamental core of the task of reversal.
Highlights
Gilles Deleuze's critical reception of Platos philosophy is developed under the formula of its reversal, the task Nietzsche entrusted future philosophy with
In the introduction to this paper I set myself to the task of showing that Deleuzes critical reading of Plato's theory of anámnesis is a fundamental aspect of the reversal of the dogmatic image of thought
Put forward by Wolff and Ginoux, that Platos ambiguity in Deleuzes thought amounts to the disarticulation of the metaphysical oppositions that it inaugurates and that Platos influence is not to be taken merely as a negative one, I proposed a reading based on the positive elements that Deleuze extracts from Platos work and uses in his own
Summary
Gilles Deleuze's critical reception of Platos philosophy is developed under the formula of its reversal, the task Nietzsche entrusted future philosophy with. It has often been emphasized that the role that Plato plays in his work, as Deleuze himself puts it, is an ambiguous one. His strategy in “Platon et le simulacre” is to find reversal inside Plato's own philosophy (Deleuze, 1969: 292295) and in Différence et répétition he explicitly states that it is inevitable and desirable that reversal preserves a lot of platonic elements (Deleuze, 1968: 82)
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