Abstract

YONEZAWA, Fernando Hiromi. Only the joy produces knowledge:body, affect and ethics learning in deleuze´s interpretation of Spinoza. Educ. Teoria Prática [online]. 2015, vol.25, n.48, pp.186-199. ISSN 1981-8106.  https://doi.org/10.2015/jan.abr.v25n48.013.

The purpose of this study, conducted from theoretical research of the Gilles Deleuze´s philosophical work, is to understand the relationship between the production of knowledge, affection and body, issue contained in Deleuze´s interpretation of Spinoza. To do so, Deleuze´s texts dealing with Spinoza, as well the books Ethics and Understanding Reform Treatise of the Dutch philosopher will be examinated. Therefore body will be seen as a ethical material of the production of different levels of knowledge. This paper will focus specifically on the first two levels of knowledge, which increasingly bring a knowledge of the meetings, in order to enhance the sensitivity and thought. Addressing the concept of affection and common notion as products of encounters between bodies, will be traced the meaning of ethical knowledge, which depends on the body being affected with joy. As conclusion, at the end, the knowing power, understood as the increase of the capacity to act, will be assumed as being produced only when an unnatural effort of the thought is combined with this sensitivity of the body.

Keywords : Body; Affection; Joy; Knowledge; Ethics.

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