Only the joy produces knowledge:body, affect and ethics learning in deleuze´s interpretation of Spinoza

Authors

  • Fernando Hiromi Yonezawa USP - Universidade de São Paulo - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia - Doutorando / Professor temporário do curso de Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18675/1981-8106.vol25.n48.p186-199

Keywords:

Body, Affection, Joy, Knowledge, Ethics.

Abstract

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.

Author Biography

Fernando Hiromi Yonezawa, USP - Universidade de São Paulo - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia - Doutorando / Professor temporário do curso de Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro

Psicólogo, formado pela UNESP-Assis, Mestre em Educação pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), doutorando em Psicologia pela USP-Ribeirão Preto. Professor temporário do curso de Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro

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2015-04-29

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YONEZAWA, F. H. Only the joy produces knowledge:body, affect and ethics learning in deleuze´s interpretation of Spinoza. Educação: Teoria e Prática, [S. l.], v. 25, n. 48, p. 186–199, 2015. DOI: 10.18675/1981-8106.vol25.n48.p186-199. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.rc.biblioteca.unesp.br/index.php/educacao/article/view/7406. Acesso em: 18 jul. 2024.

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Vol. 25 No. 48 (2015)

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