Chaos and thinking

In this paper, the author examines the case of Deleuze’s and Guattari’s last published book, What is Philosophy? (1991), in which the French thinkers embark on a unique journey with a goal to once again provide the audience with an answer to the monumental question. With the clear notion that it’s not only just the philosophers who wanted or demanded this answer, Deleuze and Guattari are trying to demystify and debunk the false idea that philosophy only concerns philosophers. The aforementioned book could have just as easily borne the title: What is Philosophy, What is Art, and What is Science? With the three seminal questions in mind, the book is a substantial exercise in showing both how the pure immanence operates and how the three corresponding disciplines - arts, sciences, and philosophy - get in and out of chaos with different results. It shouldn’t be emphasized that the notion of chaos needs to be reexamined and revalued today. Deleuze and Guattari help us realize that it is of utmost urgency to comprehend that the chaos mustn’t be seen as a negative term, and that it fundamentally lies beyond the mere opposites of positive and negative categories. Our aim here is to show that the connection of thinking and chaos always leads and points to stories or narratives, in which arts, sciences, and philosophy form their unique planes. Thus, the inseparable connection and alliance form between stories, thinking, and chaos.