On structuralism, and the poststructuralistic condition in Deleuze, inverter of Platonism

Abstract

Focusing on Gilles Deleuze´s second stage of thought, specially his work of inversion of Platonism, we´ll show why the concept of structure is so important, as well as its conditions and functioning, and how this characterization has an impact on central concepts such as identity or difference. That way we´ll understand the idealistic character of Deleuze´s philosophy, thus a different kind of Plato´s idealism. We´ll take into consideration, also, the realm of the “problematic”, and the “ideal game”. We´ll evaluate the six necessary criteria of what Deleuze calls an “Idea”. Given the conditions we´ll establish trough this revision, we´ll be able to conclude that Deleuze overtakes structuralism and embraces poststructuralism. This last affirmation will be argued trough a comparison between Delezue´s poststructuralism and the basics of more classical, Lévi-Straus´s structuralism