Conceptual person and cogito á la Deleuze

Abstract

Author deals with Deleuze's conception of conceptual person which in What is philosophy?, written in co-authorship with Félix Guattari, forms together with concept and plan of immanence philosophical trinity. The strategical role of conceptual person is that it asists to the concept on one side and to the plan of immanence on the other. At the same time it represents the medium through which philosopher can expres himself. Conceptual person, however, is not a tool or representative of the prhilosopher, but mad, schizophrene cogito, which “thinks inside the philosopher”. Conceptual person is Deleuze's variant of Rimbaud's thesis “Je est un autre”, which is posible only on the background of Kant's insight that madneš of the subject corresponds to the time which is out of joint. For that reason Deleuze claims that philosophy is dice throw, which does not mean only that philosophy is permanently in crisis, but that task of philosophy is to produce something new, something which is not thinkable form the present, which on the contrary resist to it, throws it out of joint.