Images of thought in Gilles Deleuze: representation and creation

Abstract

One of the major goals of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy was restitute thinking its creative power, a power that was smothered by the hegemony of the representational perspective. Combating the idea that thinking is simply a voluntary, reflective and universal activity, the French philosopher explains in Proust and Signs how the act of thinking is related to an inventive procedure. Performing a radical change in the main concepts of the representational model, such as the concepts of sign, essence and truth, Deleuze shows that if thinking is related to something, it is primarily to the affirmation of a creative style.

Gilles Deleuze; thinking; representation; creation