The machine of desire. Deleuze and the pedagogically implicit and explicit
Anita Gramigna
The purpose of the reflection we propose is to re-read some famous texts of the French philosopher in a pedagogical manner, distinguishing, as intimated in the subtitle, the implicit and explicit dimensions of his work. There is, in fact, a precise educational intentionality regarding the issue of teaching philosophy: criticism of the educational model of the bourgeois family is part of a broader liberation project, which manifests not only the features of an alternative culture, but also an unequivocal political ideality. Moreover, depending on the interpretative register, the Deleuze university course on Foucault’s work, as well as the essay dedicated to him, may be explicitly or implicitly formative. On one hand, «vocation» to teaching — which can accompany those who study on difficult paths, with patience, authority and lucid emancipative intent — becomes evident. On the other hand, personal need emerges in preparation for politics as practice, an action that affects existential choices, taking into account the complex relationship of sharing and differentiation that animated the relationship between the two thinkers. The research has a bibliographic character, with a qualitative approach and a hermeneutical epistemological background.
Keywords
Politics, education, philosophy, emancipation.