Sens de l’anarchie et anarchie du sens chez Richir et Deleuze

Abstract

According to two widely-held theses, phenomenology is a philosophy of the “subject”, of “consciousness”. And precisely for this reason, Deleuze is supposed not to be a phenomenologist. In this paper, I will set out to refute these two theses, bringing together Deleuze and Richir through the prism of the notions of “anarchy” and “sense” and their interrelation. I will argue in favour of a phenomenology of formation of sense, of Sinnbildung ; and I will try to understand to what extent Deleuze can be said to be a “phenomenologist” — in a sense that will need to be clarified. To this end, I will focus primarily on their magna opera, Deleuze’s Logique du sens (1969) and Richir’s Méditations phénoménologiques (1992).