Challenge Your Thinking with Deleuze and Guattari's Critique Quiz

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What was the main critique of Deleuze and Guattari against State-happy Marxism and school-building psychoanalysis?

They saw them as too conservative and authoritarian

They saw them as potential new bureaucracy of analytic reason (correct)

They saw them as irrelevant to social movements

They saw them as too radical and anarchistic

What is the main characteristic of representational thinking according to Deleuze and Guattari?

It is a form of thinking that embraces contradictions

It is a form of abstract thinking without any connection to reality

It reposes on a double identity of thinking subject and concepts it creates (correct)

It is based on empirical observation of the world

What is the role of the faculty of judgment in representational thinking according to Deleuze and Guattari?

To create a new set of concepts that are not based on the thinking subject

To assure that each term is honestly itself and that the proper correspondences obtain (correct)

To eliminate contradictions and paradoxes in thinking

To impose a hierarchical ranking of concepts and objects

What is the main goal of the University of Berlin according to Deleuze and Guattari?

The spiritual and moral training of the nation Signup and view all the answers

What is the 'arborescent model' of thought according to Deleuze and Guattari?

The 'properly spiritual absolute State' endlessly reproduced and disseminated at every level of the social fabric Signup and view all the answers

What is the main difference between Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus?

A Thousand Plateaus is less a critique than a positive exercise in the affirmative 'nomad' thought called for in Anti-Oedipus Signup and view all the answers

What was the impact of Anti-Oedipus in France?

It created an intellectual sensation with its polemics against State-happy Marxism and school-building psychoanalysis Signup and view all the answers

What was Deleuze and Guattari's stance on hierarchy and social movements?

They opposed hierarchy and supported social movements Signup and view all the answers

What was the main argument of Anti-Oedipus?

Psychoanalysis and Marxism should be kept separate Signup and view all the answers

What is the 'arborescent model' of thought?

A model of thought that emphasizes hierarchy and order Signup and view all the answers

What is the faculty of judgment?

The ability to ensure proper correspondences between terms Signup and view all the answers

What is the main difference between Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus?

Anti-Oedipus is a critique, while A Thousand Plateaus is a positive exercise Signup and view all the answers

What was the goal of the University of Berlin?

To achieve spiritual and moral training of the nation Signup and view all the answers

What is representational thinking?

A form of thought that reposes on a double identity of thinking subject and concepts it creates Signup and view all the answers

Study Notes

Deleuze and Guattari's Critique of Representational Thought and Philosophy's Collusion with the State

Deleuze and Guattari were ultra-opposition within the left, and their antihierarchical leanings made them early partisans of social movements such as feminism and gay rights.
Anti-Oedipus was their first book together, which gave philosophical weight to their convictions and created an intellectual sensation in France with its polemics against State-happy Marxism and school-building psychoanalysis.
Anti-Oedipus short-circuited the connection between psychoanalysis and the far-left parties, which Deleuze and Guattari saw as a potential new bureaucracy of analytic reason.
A Thousand Plateaus, written over seven years, was a sequel to Anti-Oedipus and shares its subtitle, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, but constitutes a different project.
A Thousand Plateaus is less a critique than a positive exercise in the affirmative "nomad" thought called for in Anti-Oedipus.
Representational thinking characterizes Western metaphysics since Plato and reposes on a double identity of thinking subject and concepts it creates, and objects in the world to which concepts are applied.
The faculty of judgment is the policeman of analogy, assuring that each term is honestly itself, and that the proper correspondences obtain.
The weapons it wields in their pursuit are limitative distribution and hierarchical ranking, and the modus operandi is negation.
The established order is the rational foundation for order, and philosophers have traditionally been employees of the State.
The collusion between philosophy and the State was most explicitly enacted in the first decade of the nineteenth century with the foundation of the University of Berlin, which was to become the model for higher learning throughout Europe and in the United States.
The goal of the University of Berlin was the "spiritual and moral training of the nation," to be achieved by "deriving everything from an original principle," "relating everything to an ideal," and "unifying this principle and this ideal in a single Idea."
Deleuze and Guattari describe this as the "arborescent model" of thought, the "properly spiritual absolute State" endlessly reproduced and disseminated at every level of the social fabric.

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Test your knowledge of Deleuze and Guattari's critique of representational thought and philosophy's collusion with the state with this intellectually stimulating quiz. Explore the groundbreaking ideas presented in their works, Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus, and discover how they challenged the traditional Western metaphysical thinking. Dive into the antihierarchical leanings of Deleuze and Guattari and their support for social movements such as feminism and gay rights. Challenge yourself to understand the arborescent