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Gracieuse, Marjorie (2011) Deleuze and the problem of hierarchy : the crowned anarchy of desire. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
This thesis consists in emphasizing an all too often overlooked Deleuzian
redefinition of the concept of ‘hierarchy’. Deleuze re-creates the sense of this old
concept in order to break with the traditional representations of verticality, which
have predominantly led philosophy back to the transcendence of established powers
and the abstractions of opinion. To the order of representation and transcendence,
always implicating the ideal of a unity as criterion of judgment and perception,
Deleuze opposes a complex order in becoming. From this perspective, hierarchy no
longer concerns the ontological separation between being and beings, or between
thought and what it thinks. Rather, hierarchy, inasmuch as it is now integrated within
the differential order of pure immanence, refers to the unequal perspectives that
make up the extreme singularity of individuals as various modes of life. In addition
to being an ontological feature of life as self-differing power, hierarchy constitutes a
vital problem for thought, for it posits the question of exploring to what extent and
by which means beings can actively possess their vitality and fully accomplish their
power. It is through the problem of hierarchy, conceived as ethical differentiation of
modes of existence and values, that the problem of freedom and of its relative
degrees acquires, in Deleuze, a very concrete sense. It becomes one with an art of
individual and collective experimentation, by which thought learns how to free itself
from enslaving fictions in favour of a more intense existence.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995 -- Criticism and interpretation, Philosophy | ||||
Official Date: | January 2011 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Department of Philosophy | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Beistegui, Miguel de, 1966- | ||||
Extent: | 246 leaves | ||||
Language: | eng |
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