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Abstract
The affinities between philosophy and literature have, over time, linked almost the entire range of possible loves, even the most contradictory. The ambiguities of the genitive in the phrase ‘philosophy of literature’ sum up these affective ambivalences in a condensed form, as well as summing up all attempts to determine a topology of relations between these two discourses (i.e. literature as limit, reverse, exteriority, edge of philosophy, etc.). To explore these questions I have chosen to start with a specific case: the difficult one of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy (or Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy), which is faithful to literature but ambiguously so. For instance, how can we understand his injunction to take texts literally when he seems to be the champion of metaphor in his work as a creator of concepts? What appears to be a contradiction has often been pointed out, by Jacques Rancière in particular. It is this ambivalence that I will focus on to try to characterize the relationship between philosophy and literature, by examining the meaning of this appeal to the literary, and by bringing into play the term experimentation, highlighted by Deleuze and Guattari at the beginning of Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature. This term will not only work against that of interpretation, but also against that of experience, used today by a certain ‘ethical turn’ in the philosophy of literature.