Subjectivity production and philosophy teaching

Abstract

Our intention is to study the production of subjectivity in the philosophy teaching, which we understand that is given as a process, criticizing, thus, the traditional subject. In our research we will use the philosophical method thought by Deleuze and Guattari in “What it is the philosophy?” (1997). To these authors, the philosophical work is divided into 3 stages: (1) the Plan of immanence is the place that the philosopher constructs to (2) produce his Concepts; then he uses the (3) Conceptual Personages who will make the philosophical concepts work. From this study, we intend to remove the pseudo-personality from the representation concerning what the philosophy teaching made by a subject is to, thus, create a field of conceptual production in which both the subject and the object, in which both teaching and learning, are produced simultaneously in a Plan of Immanence. This is the point where our main problem appears. What does the philosopher do while his job is to be philosophy teacher? Does he make philosophy, creation of concepts, while he teaches? Or does he make science, in the sense of presenting scientific propositions (prospects) concerning the philosophy? Or does he produce affects and proper percepts of the artistic activity mobilizing the students to a philosophical willing of knowing? Or still, a connection of two or all these plans? We believe, even hypothetically, that the philosophy teacher acts in these three levels: firstly aesthetic, creating aesthetic figures as powers of affects and percepts; as a scientist, presenting propositions of the proper philosophy as a historical revival of the philosophical knowing; and as a philosopher, creating conditions to create concepts. Therefore the philosophy teaching could contribute to the subjectivation process, as a way of singularization of knowing of/in the students.