Gilles Deleuze and the apolitical production of being

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dc.contributor.authorPaugh, Tim
dc.contributor.supervisorMagnusson, Warren
dc.date.accessioned2008-05-15T21:17:44Z
dc.date.available2008-05-15T21:17:44Z
dc.date.copyright2008en_US
dc.date.issued2008-05-15T21:17:44Z
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Political Science
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractGilles Deleuze’s ontology is often understood to ground a kind of radical pluralism, the political defense of which is thought to be articulated most strongly in the Capitalism and Schizophrenia books. It is clear, however, that this “politics” is defined in a wholly negative way, and that the revolutionary dimension of these books is animated by a strictly ethical logic. In my view, if there is a politics in Deleuze it must be understood in relation to the central problem of his ontology: namely, the problem of understanding how Being is produced. To grasp politics as a singularity, as a mode of ontological production, has a number of radical consequences – consequences, however, that Deleuze himself did not embrace. Ultimately, Deleuze’s conception of ontological production appears marked by an apolitics, in that any effective mobilization of Being’s transformative potential requires that we stand posed to sacrifice anything of the integrity and organizational capacity of political existence that limits the expression of Being itself.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/942
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectDeleuze, Gillesen_US
dc.subjectPolitics and Ontologyen_US
dc.subjectOntological Productionen_US
dc.subjectSingularityen_US
dc.subjectEventen_US
dc.subjectApoliticsen_US
dc.subjectPluralismen_US
dc.subjectCommon Senseen_US
dc.subjectBadiou, Alainen_US
dc.subjectRanciere, Jacquesen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Political Scienceen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Philosophyen_US
dc.titleGilles Deleuze and the apolitical production of beingen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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