Deleuze and Ethics

by Jun, Nathan; Smith, Daniel W.

• ISBN13: 9780748641161
• ISBN10: 0748641165
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-05-09
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

Since he never devoted a book to the study of ethics, many scholars have assumed that Gilles Deleuze did not write about the subject. Yet the opposite is true. Concepts such as ethics, valies, and normativity play a crucial, if subtle and easily overlooked, role in Deleuze's philosophical project. These essays unearth and explore the ethical dimensions of Deleuzian philosophy across a number of trajectories, ultimately reclaiming his thought as a moral philosophical triumph.

Author Biography

Nathan Jun is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Midwestern State University. Daniel W. Smith is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Whistle While You Work: Deleuze and the Spirit of Capitalism	p. 5
The Ethics of the Event: Deleuze and Ethics without ¿¿¿¿	p. 21
While Remaining on the Shore: Ethics in Deleuze's Encounter with Antonin Artaud	p. 44
Responsive Becoming: Ethics between Deleuze and Feminism	p. 63
Deleuze, Values, and Normativity	p. 89
Ethics and the World without Others	p. 108
Deleuze and the Question of Desire: Towards an Immanent Theory of Ethics	p. 123
ôExisting Not as a Subject But as a Work of Artö: The Task of Ethics or Aesthetics?	p. 142
Deleuze, Ethics, Ethology, and Art	p. 154
Never Too Late? On the Implications of Deleuze's Work on Death for a Deleuzian Moral Philosophy	p. 171
Ethics between Particularity and Universality	p. 188
Notes on Contributors	p. 207
Index	p. 210
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