Deleuze's Kantian Ethos: Critique as a Way of Life

Cheri Lynne Carr

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2018

Deleuze's Kantian Ethos

Critique as a Way of Life

Cheri Lynne Carr

In the series Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474407724

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Explores the potential for an original ethics based on Deleuze’s unique interpretation and use of Kantian critique

Among the philosophical traditions that seem most at odds with Gilles Deleuze’s project, two stand out: Kantianism and normative ethics. Both of these traditions represent forms of moralism that Deleuze explicitly rejects. In this book, Cheri Lynne Carr explores the very real potential of Deleuze’s clandestine use of Kantian critique for developing a new ethical practice. This new practice is built on an idea implicit in much of Deleuzian thought: the idea of critique as a way of life.

This new concept of a critical ethos is a powerful form of moral pedagogy directed at developing in us the wisdom to perceive unanticipated features of moral salience, evaluate our presupposed principles, affirm the limits imposed by those presuppositions and create concepts that capture new ways of thinking about moral problems.

Key Features

Fundamentally alters how we read the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze
Prepares a continental ethics that resists teleology and foundational anthropologies
Suggests new ways of understanding the role of violence in French Neo-Nietzschean thought
Contributes to the debate surrounding Kant’s psychologism by drawing attention to Deleuze’s unique interpretation of Kant's theory of faculties

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: The Problem of a Deleuzian Ethics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I Deleuze’s Critical Philosophy – Kantian Critique and the Differential Theory of Faculties
1 The Deleuzian Subject Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2 The Theory of Faculties Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
3 Immanent Critique Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
PART II Critique as an Ethos – A Handbook for a Way Out
4 Critical Ethos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
5 Moral Destiny and Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
6 Violence of Critique Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Conclusion: Ethics and the Richness of the Possible Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 176
Keywords: Philosophy

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474407724