Entre Deleuze e Canguilhem: filosofia crítica, vitalismo e problema do pensamento

Canguilhem's historical-rationalist epistemology, his penchant for the concrete, and the areas which he refers to - medicine, the study of pathology, physiology, biology - seem a long way from the sweeping metaphysical studies of the "first" Deleuze and his interest in abstract conceptual systematization. But, here, we will locate ourselves on another level - that of philosophical problems and projects. In this setting, we present an interweaving of readings of the Essai and Nietzsche et la philosophie in order to see how enlightening it is: there, a less exclusively rationalistic Canguilhem appears, and we see in Deleuze's philosophical research something other than a gesture that raises reflection to another level of abstraction. More profoundly, such an approximation places under new perspectives the triple meaning of the refounding of Kantian criticism as a philosophy of values, of its relationship to a "philosophy of life" and its culmination in the problematization of the image of thought.