Geophilosophy : on Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's What is philosophy? / Rodolphe Gasche

"This book in the main consists of lectures that I first delivered in 2010 at the Collegium Phenomenologicum at Citta di Castello, Italy, and subsequently expanded for a three-day seminar at the Universidad Diego Portales at Santiago, Chile, in 2011. In spring 2012 my graduate lecture course in the Department of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo was devoted to the subject "geophilosophy." It was on this occasion that I expanded the earlier lectures to the dimensions of the book in its present form."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-138) and index.

The "Greek miracle" -- Which earth? -- An autochthonous no longer earthbound -- The friend, for example -- Taking flight -- Liberating opinion -- The fractalization of Greece -- Earth-thought -- Earth, nature, cosmos.

Rodolphe Gasche's commentary on Deleuze and Guattari's last book, What Is Philosophy?, homes in on what the two thinkers define as philosophy in distinction from the sciences and the arts and what it is that they understand themselves to have done while doing philosophy. Gasche is concerned with the authors' claim not only that philosophy is a Greek invention but also that it is, for fundamental reasons, geophilosophical in nature. Gasche finds that geocentrism is a central dimension of their thinking.Indeed, Gasche argues, if all the principal traits that constitute philosophy according to What is Philosophy?-autochthony, philia, and doxa-imply in an essential manner a concern with Earth, it follows that what Deleuze and Guattari have been doing while engaging in philosophy has been marked by this concern from the start.