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« The Disparate: Deleuze’s Ethics of the Univocity of Being »
Une conférence par Leonard Lawlor, professeur de philosophie à l'Université de Pennsylvanie, donnée à l'ENS-PSL dans le cadre d'un cycle autour de "The Disparate: Deleuze’s Ethics of the Univocity of Being" organisée par l'EUR Translitteræ.

The three lectures concern Deleuze’s three books from the end of the 1960s: Spinoza et le problème de l’expression; Différence et répétition; and Logique du sens. As the course title indicates, the theme of the course is what Deleuze, in Différence et répétition, calls “le dispars.” According to Deleuze, the world was created not by a rational God, using a self-identical principle. Instead, the world was created by the disparate, which is an irrational ratio between traditional metaphysical oppositions like thought and extension. The irrational ratio resembles Pi, which cannot be represented by a fraction, although 22/7 is frequently used to approximate Pi. Like Pi producing decimals to infinity, the disparate has the power to produce beings endlessly. The disparate then is a principle of “puissance,” which means that overall Deleuze’s philosophy is a philosophy of power. The disparate replaces Spinoza’s omnipotent God. If there is something like a sufficient reason in Deleuze it is a sufficient ir-reason. As in Spinoza, being in Deleuze is said in one and the same sense of all the different beings. Hence the course’s subtitle: “Deleuze’s Ethics of the Univocity of Being.” Because of the disparate, Deleuze’s ethics is one of power. Having the same sense, each individual being can go to the limit of its power. Nevertheless, Deleuze’s ethics of power is based on an “impuissance.” Even more, the ethics of the univocity of being is characterized not just by power based on powerlessness, but also by the affirmation of the lowest degree of power, of beatitude coming about on the basis of us understanding ourselves sub species aeternitas, and of peace based on what Deleuze in Logique du sens calls “the universal communication of events.” Yes, peace, even though Deleuze (with Guattari) is the philosopher of “la machine de guerre.”

Thèmes : Philosophie
Catégories: Professeur invité - EUR Translitterae
Mot-clés : Philosophie

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Leonard Lawlor
Pennsylvania State University
Professeur de philosophie

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