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Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2017, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (3): 187-198.

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Becoming, Intensity and Transversal Communication: the Cross-cultural Dialogue between Deleuze's Thoughts and Taoist Thoughts

Jiang Dandan   

  1.  the Department of Philosophy, Institute for advanced studies of European Culture, Shanghai Jiaotong University (Shanghai 200241, China)
  • Online:2017-05-25 Published:2018-01-24
  • About author:Jiang Dandan, Ph.D., is a distinguished research fellow at the Department of Philosophy, Institute for advanced studies of European Culture, Shanghai Jiaotong University (Shanghai 200241, China). She is also a correspondent and director of research program at the Collège International de Philosophie (CIPh, Paris). Her main research areas are Sino-French cross-cultural dialogue and comparative philosophy.

Abstract: This paper explores the paradoxical thought in the works of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), including his writings in collaboration with Félix Guattari, around the question of "becoming". It examines the connotation of certain notions and their internal connection in Deleuze’s works, and, by drawing on the reinterpretations of Deleuzian philosophy by the contemporary Italian philosopher Agamben, discusses becoming and intensity, immanence and Transcendental empiricism, body without organs and transversal, etc. It also explores some possibilities of cross-cultural dialogue between Deleuze's thoughts on becoming and the works of the Taoist thinker Zhuangzi in ancient China.

Key words: Deleuze, Becoming, difference, intensity, multiplicity, transversal, Tao, cross-cultural dialogue