Deleuze and Ethics

Deleuze Connections

by Nathan Jun (Editor), Daniel W. Smith (Editor)

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, values, 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.

Genres: Philosophy

188 pages, Paperback

First published December 15, 2010

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection of essays is an excellent place to turn for help understanding the implications of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy for ethics. Deleuze is among those contemporary European philosophers who reject essentialist metaphysics - especially in regard to metaphysical humanism - and thus challenge the very basis of traditional approaches to moral theory found in Western philosophy. These essays explore and critically assess Deleuze's ethics of immanence and its implications for thinking about gender, political economy, and moral psychology. The book will be of interest not only to Deleuze scholars, but also those more familiar with moral philosophy in Anglophone philosophy looking for an entry point for understanding Deleuze's ethics.