LEADER 04543oam 22005894a 450 001 9910140401303321 005 20240424225749.0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000557873 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001666878 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16455889 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001666878 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)15000938 035 $a(PQKB)11535318 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00056553 035 $a(OCoLC)1178720938 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse87145 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31864 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000557873 100 $a20200724d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurm|#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Communism of Thought$fMichael Munro 210 $aBrooklyn, NY$cpunctum books$d2014 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2020 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (76 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-615-98696-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 71-76) 330 $aThe Communism of Thought takes as its point of departure a passage in a letter from Dionys Mascolo to Gilles Deleuze: "I have called this communism of thought in the past. And I placed it under the auspices of Ho?lderlin, who may have only fled thought because he was unable to live it: 'The life of the spirit between friends, the thoughts that form in the exchange of words, by writing or in person, are necessary to those who seek. Without that, we are by our own hands outside thought.'"What, in light of that imperative, is a correspondence? What is given to be understood by the word, let alone the phenomenon? What constitutes a correspondence? What occasions it? On what terms and according to what conditions may one enter into that exchange "necessary," in Ho?lderlin's words, "to those who seek"? Pursuant to what vicissitudes may it be conducted? And what end(s) might a correspondence come to have beyond the ostensible end that, to all appearances, it (inevitably) will be said to have had?And what is the proximity, here, between correspondence and commentary? To what extent might commentary approximate a kind of correspondence? (And with whom? The author of the source text? The source text itself? A future reader of that text? Or then again a third, or fourth, or nth party? And by way of what channels?)The two texts -- the two commentaries -- that form the heart of The Communism of Thought are both short, late texts of Gilles Deleuze's, and they're both reprinted in Two Regimes of Madness: Texts and Interviews, 1975-1995. The first text is Deleuze's last published article, widely considered to be something of a testament, "Immanence: A Life ...." The commentary is staged in the manner of a dictionary definition of the word immanence. The various subentries under the first (and only) sense of the word for Deleuze -- "a life ..." -- develop in tandem with the article to progressively elaborate the centrality of the problematics of definition to Deleuze's conception of immanence. The second text is that of a brief, beautiful correspondence: The five letters that comprise the correspondence between Gilles Deleuze and Dionys Mascolo were written between 23 April and 6 October 1988, and were first published a decade later, in 1998, a year after Mascolo's death and nearly three years after Deleuze's. The commentary, a kind of marginalia to that correspondence, comes gradually and progressively into focus around a single question: To what affinity might a correspondence attest?"What strikes me especially," an interviewer once noted to Deleuze, "is the friendship you have for the authors you write about." "If you don't admire something," Deleuze replied, "if you don't love it, you have no reason to write a word about it." 606 $aPhilosophers$xCorrespondence 606 $aThought and thinking 606 $aPhilosophy 610 $aphilosophy 610 $acorrespondence 610 $afriendship 610 $acommentary 610 $aGilles Deleuze 615 0$aPhilosophers$xCorrespondence. 615 0$aThought and thinking. 615 0$aPhilosophy. 676 $a128/.3 700 $aMunro$b M$g(Michael),$0984397 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910140401303321 996 $aThe Communism of Thought$93083711 997 $aUNINA