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Ansell-Pearson, Keith (2017) Deleuze’s new materialism : naturalism, norms, and ethics. In: Ellenzweig, Sarah and Zammito, John H., (eds.) The New Politics of Materialism : History, Philosophy, Science. London ; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 88-109. ISBN 9781138240742
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Abstract
This essay examines Deleuze’s relation to new materialism through an engagement with new materialist claims about the human and nonhuman relation and about agency. It first considers the work of Elisabeth Grosz and then moves on to a consideration of Deleuze’s own conception of a new materialism/new naturalism (Deleuze elaborates a ‘new materialism’ in his work on Spinoza of the 1960s). I seek to show that Deleuze is an ethically motivated naturalist concerned with an ethical pedagogy of the human, which he derives from his reading of Spinoza. I seek to illuminate some of the principal features of this ethically guided materialism/naturalism and show that even in his later work with Felix Guattari, which situates all life, human and nonhuman, on a plane of immanence, there remains a recognition that the human animal is ethically distinguished as the inventive species par excellence. My main claim, then, is that Deleuze’s project cannot be aligned with a new materialism that supposes a flat ontology and that does away with an ethical distinction between the human and the nonhuman. Although Deleuze bequeaths a complex legacy to post-modern thought in his thinking about the human, it should not be supposed that he has no affinities with aspects of a humanist position and pedagogy.
| Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BD Speculative Philosophy B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995, Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677, Materialism, Philosophy of mind, Naturalism, Ethics | ||||
| Publisher: | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group | ||||
| Place of Publication: | London ; New York | ||||
| ISBN: | 9781138240742 | ||||
| Book Title: | The New Politics of Materialism : History, Philosophy, Science | ||||
| Editor: | Ellenzweig, Sarah and Zammito, John H. | ||||
| Official Date: | 29 June 2017 | ||||
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| Number of Pages: | 328 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 88-109 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Publisher Statement: | "This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in The New Politics of Materialism : History, Philosophy, Science on 29/06/2017, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781138240742” | ||||
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