For the next month I am only reading Deleuze and verse
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Have you read Spinoza?
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I didn't find Deleuze a very deep reader of Spinoza. imho Deleuze uses Spinoza to give intellectual backbone to his reading of Nietszche.
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Really? I'm not well-read enough in philosophy to say, but conatus seems pretty essential to Deleuze's philosophy, though he relates it often to the will to power
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Parts of PP I liked (just read it last year) but found it limited as an intro to Spinoza & perhaps misleading (eg individual person as primary example of "body"; in general too much biology)
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Hate to contradict, but I immediately thought of this passage from PP where he says plainly that a body can be anything. You're right that he uses the human example most often, but I was never under the illusion that it was the supreme example, only the most useful onepic.twitter.com/KP8ahIbRzm
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My point is it's not the most useful, quite the opposite. As there is parallelism between bodies and ideas, then eg the idea "triangle" has a corresponding body - which obvs cannot be a particular triangle.
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