When Jerry Lewis or Tati “criticize” modern life, they don’t have the complacency, the vulgarity to show us ugly things. What they criticize and, they show as beautiful, as magnificent: they love what they criticize and give it a new beauty. Their critique is only the more forceful. In every modernity and every novelty, you find conformity and creativity; an insipid conformity, but also “a little new music”; something in conformity with the time, but also something untimely – separating the one from the other is the task of those who know how to love, the real destroyers and creators of our day. Good destruction requires love.”
“If you don’t admire something, if you don’t love it, you have no reason to write a word about it. Spinoza or Nietzsche are the philosophers whose critical and destructive powers are without equal, but this power always springs from affirmation, from joy, from a cult of affirmation and joy, from the exigency of life against those who would mutilate and mortify it. For me, that is philosophy itself."
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from hyperion fb, its an excerpt from Gilles Deleuze, Desert Island Texts. i omitted the 1st paragraph:
Admiration & Genuine Critique
Wed at 2:06pm
“When you’re facing such a work of genius, there’s no point saying you disagree. First you have to know how to admire; you have to rediscover the problems [a thinker] poses, his particular machinery. It is through admiration that you will come to genuine critique. The mania of people today is not knowing how to admire anything; either they’re “against,” or they situate everything at their own level while they chit-chat and scrutinize. That’s no way to go about it. You have to work your way back to those problems which an author of genius has posed, all the way back to that which he does not say in what he says, in order to extract something that still belongs to him, though you also turn it against him. You have to be inspired, visited by the geniuses you denounce."
against those who would mutilate and mortify it. For me, that is philosophy itself."
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- bill 4-08-2010 1:56 pm
Who is the quote from? (The link is to a Facebook login.)
- tom moody 4-09-2010 4:39 am [add a comment]
from hyperion fb, its an excerpt from Gilles Deleuze, Desert Island Texts. i omitted the 1st paragraph:
Admiration & Genuine Critique
Wed at 2:06pm
“When you’re facing such a work of genius, there’s no point saying you disagree. First you have to know how to admire; you have to rediscover the problems [a thinker] poses, his particular machinery. It is through admiration that you will come to genuine critique. The mania of people today is not knowing how to admire anything; either they’re “against,” or they situate everything at their own level while they chit-chat and scrutinize. That’s no way to go about it. You have to work your way back to those problems which an author of genius has posed, all the way back to that which he does not say in what he says, in order to extract something that still belongs to him, though you also turn it against him. You have to be inspired, visited by the geniuses you denounce." against those who would mutilate and mortify it. For me, that is philosophy itself."
- bill 4-09-2010 12:21 pm [add a comment]