Gilles Deleuze y el nuevo realismo

Abstract

The present article examines the philosophical recovery of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy in recent times. In particular, it analyzes the continuities and discontinuities between his thinking and the so-called “realist turn” in current continental philosophy. By stressing Deleuze’s affinity with “new realism” (speculative realism or ontological realism), new materialism, object-oriented ontology and the philosophies of process, it puts into perspective his presence and reception in the discussions around these movements, which present themselves as an alternative to modern and postmodern thought, and propose a radical turn with respect to the entire paradigm of XX century philosophy. The ultimate aim is to show the significance and relevance of Deleuze in the horizon of a reflection about the historical becoming of philosophical thought. To this end, the French philosopher is presented as a “savage anomaly”, that is, as a thinker who was not exactly of his time, but of the times to come: a thinker of tomorrow whose inclination for creativity and the new enabled his return in a posthumous but constructive dialogue with new generations of philosophers.