Methodological Principles of J. Deleuze on the Example of the Analysis of Political and Social Processes

This article examines the problem of using Gilles Deleuze’s methodology to political and social processes. Based on the basic principles of research and categories that can be excluded from Deleuze’s work, the author proposes a specific research program that the French philosopher presumably used. The author concentrates on the analysis of such concepts as production, body without organs, assembly, deterritorialization, becoming and expression. Particular attention is paid to such research principles as the relationship between the actual and the virtual, rhizomaticity and singularity. The author’s conclusions, derived from the research, are as follows: 1) Deleuzian methodology has an original and powerful methodological apparatus, but cannot become the basis for the implementation of a predictive function, since the foundation of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy is classical metaphysics - Spinoza and Leibniz; 2) Gilles Deleuze’s research program presupposes the principle of pluralism in relation to the selected methods, categories and concepts, which, in turn, allows the researcher to liberate himself from the effect of corporatism in the modern scientific community.