TITLE:
On the Dialectical Relationship between Primitive Societies and State Societies in Deleuze’s Political Philosophy
AUTHORS:
Yue Pan
KEYWORDS:
Deleuze, Micro-Politics, Macro-Politics, State Theory
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.11 No.3,
March
17,
2023
ABSTRACT: Deleuze
and Guattari’s theory of state is a key theme in their political philosophy. By
combining “micro-politics” and “macro-politics”, this paper summarizes the origins of the state at the macro level
in three elements: unique overcoding, explicit boundaries and centralized power
resonances, which could be further summarized as the establishment of an
abstract symbolic system; at the micro level, primitive societies and state
societies are simultaneously coexisting, they are in a dialectical
relationship, which interpenetrate each other and are always present in every
society.