Postmodernioji Leibnizo interpretacija arba kodėl Deleuze’as laiko Leibnizą baroko mąstytoju?
Leibniz‘s Postmodern Interpretation or Why Deleuze Considers Leibniz as the Thinker of Barocco?

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to examine metaphysics of Gottfried Leibniz as it is interpreted in Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy and, first at all, in his famous work The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque. Deleuze considers Leibniz as the thinker of Baroque, as Baroque, to his mind, is the time when the problem of infinity and multiplicity of the world is revealed. The same vision of the world is also inherent to our postmodern culture. Leibniz’s pluralistic metaphysics indicates the world that is constituted of dozens of metaphysical points – monads, mostly characterised by its perception and perfection. Leibniz’s monadology is compared with Deleuze’s materialistic vitalism and the monad is compared with the notion of vital force. Unfolding the way how Deleuze integrates Leibniz to the plan of his own immanent philosophy at the same time there is considered the main difference between these two philosophical conceptions. In Leibniz the problem of multiplicity is subordinated to the principle of identity, or the sufficient reason, whereas Deleuze tries to show that the principle of multiplicity is not dependent on the logic of identity.

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