Title
Desire and Ethics
Document Type
Journal Article
RIS ID
46256
Abstract
This paper argues that it is problematic for the future of Deleuze studies that it is difficult if not impossible to answer the question `what is the right thing to do?' from a Deleuzian perspective. It then argues that one of the key reasons Deleuze studies has made limited progress in this area is its over-emphasis on desire and the corresponding tendency to extrapolate 'ought' from 'is', which as Hume showed is a category mistake. It proposes that to develop a workable ethical discourse from Deleuze's work we need to rethink how we read his work and approach it afresh.
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Publication Details
Buchanan, I. M. 2011, 'Desire and Ethics', Deleuze Studies, vol. 5, no. Supplement, pp. 7-20.