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Plane of Immanence

Plane of Immanence


The plane of immanence is pre-philosophical image of thought which provides a basis for the creation of philosophical concepts.The notion of a plane of immanence was developed and used by the contemporary French philosophers Gilles deleuze(1925-95) and Felix guattari (1930-92),perticularly in their work ' What is Philosophy ?' The importance in Deleuze and Guattari connects up with a trend in modern and postmodern history of philosophy away from a concern with transcendence toward a preoccupation with immanence.

Deleuze most explicitly derives the notion of a plane of immanence from Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77). For Spinoza there is only one substance ( Nature or God ) ,which exists in different mode. This has been called a pantheism or a monism, and in his Ethics Spinoza develops what he calls a parallelism between mind and body, which again are but two different manifestations of the one substance. In his book,Spinoza:Practical Philosophy, Deleuze affirms the notion of one substance, Nature, with different attributes, which he calls a philosophical plane, in contrast to a theological plane,which is a duality which contains a hidden transcendence or depth.

In his Critique of Pure Reason Kant also articulates a formulation of a plane of immanece. Kant argues in this transcendental Aesthetic that there is only one space and one time which must be thought of as unlimited, and every appearance in a particular space and time is merely a delimitation of that universal form of an appearance. Since every appearance for Kant is a sensible and empirical appearence, it follows that this unlimited space and time must be immanent to human sensibility.

In What Is Philosophy? Deleuze and Guattari claim that philosophy is concerned with the creation of concepts takes place within a certain pre-philosophical environment, which Deleuze and Guattari call the plane of immanence. a plane of immanece cannot be contrasted with a prior or existing transcendence; rather the transcendent must now be thought only as a derivation of what is immanent. The plane of immanence is described alternatively as a single wave, an imange of thought, a moving absolute horizon, and an indivisible milieu. This plane precedes the concept and allows it a space to be created, but does not itself create concepts. Part of the philosophical project for Deleuze and Guattari has been the laying out, or the identification and elaboration of a new plane of immanence for philosophy, understand in terms of complex forces, intensities, simulacra, surfaces, bodies, and machines. This altered plane of immanence transforms what it means to practice Philosophy.