@article{ART001414180},
author={Shin, Seong Chul},
title={Analysis of body-desire theory by Deleuze and Gattari: "How to make the Body Without Organs"},
journal={PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE},
issn={1975-1621},
year={2005},
number={1},
pages={133-173}
TY - JOUR
AU - Shin, Seong Chul
TI - Analysis of body-desire theory by Deleuze and Gattari: "How to make the Body Without Organs"
JO - PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
PY - 2005
VL - null
IS - 1
PB - Research Institute for East-West Thought
SP - 133
EP - 173
SN - 1975-1621
AB - My master thesis attempts at a deep－level consideration on the Chapter 6. "How to Make the Body Without Organs" in Thousand Plateaus(1980) by Gille Deleuze and Felix Gattari. The actual task of my work is to investigate the historical context and the philosophical meaning of the poststructuralism of Deleuze and Gattari on the focus of the body－desire－relation.The analysis of body－desire－relation and the philosophical experiment by Deleuze and Gattari begin with a theoretical confrontation with the theories of body and desire proposed by Spinoza and Hobbes. In Spinoza, desire means a necessary will to self－preservation (conatus) which gives a positive source of human self－respect and a political competence to form a democratic solidarity with others through communication and self－variation affected from other minds and bodies. On the contrary, by Hobbes, desire consists of an aggressive desire for power bringing about a war－state and a defensive desire of self－preservation against such a war－state. By his theory of body and desire, Spinoza carries through the modernity－project of human liberation implied by the process of demythologization. That is, the desire and body combinated actively in a free man can lead to delight and love, overcoming the sorrow made up through the passive surveillance to oppression.Deleuze and Gattari's theory of body and desire searches out the possibility of democratic communication and association in the deepest level of human life, that is, in the microscopic dimension of human desires and bodies. Their concept of BWO gives a metaphysical and imaginative foundation to the practical effort to create non－institutional modes of life by projecting various ways of free corporeal existence which can be modified without limit. By such concept of body－desire－relation, Deleuze and Gattari look for the horizontal democratic relationship which liberates desires from distorted surveillance to body and maximizes the positive potentiality of body, which ultimately guarantee the coexistence of diverse individualities.
KW - body－desire－realtion;desire as conatus;Body Without Organs
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Shin, Seong Chul. (2005). Analysis of body-desire theory by Deleuze and Gattari: "How to make the Body Without Organs". PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE, 1, 133-173.
Shin, Seong Chul. 2005, "Analysis of body-desire theory by Deleuze and Gattari: "How to make the Body Without Organs"", PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE, no.1, pp.133-173.
Shin, Seong Chul "Analysis of body-desire theory by Deleuze and Gattari: "How to make the Body Without Organs"" PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE 1 pp.133-173 (2005) : 133.
Shin, Seong Chul. Analysis of body-desire theory by Deleuze and Gattari: "How to make the Body Without Organs". 2005; 1 : 133-173.
Shin, Seong Chul. "Analysis of body-desire theory by Deleuze and Gattari: "How to make the Body Without Organs"" PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE no.1(2005) : 133-173.
Shin, Seong Chul. Analysis of body-desire theory by Deleuze and Gattari: "How to make the Body Without Organs". PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE, 1, 133-173.
Shin, Seong Chul. Analysis of body-desire theory by Deleuze and Gattari: "How to make the Body Without Organs". PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE. 2005; 1 133-173.
Shin, Seong Chul. Analysis of body-desire theory by Deleuze and Gattari: "How to make the Body Without Organs". 2005; 1 : 133-173.
Shin, Seong Chul. "Analysis of body-desire theory by Deleuze and Gattari: "How to make the Body Without Organs"" PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE no.1(2005) : 133-173.
