Discord, Monstrosity and Violence
Deleuze's Differential Ontology and Its Consequences for Ethics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4769271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hannah Stark (0000-0002-2026-0294, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 41, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 211-224 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2015.1096648 |
| OpenAlex | W2178899933 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
The present time in intellectual history isone in which violence, along with anassociated set of theoretical concepts includingwar, vulnerability, terror and security, iscoming to the fore in our theoretical vocabulary.This paper offers a reading of Deleuzes work,which is attentive to the place of violence inhis metaphysics. It examines what ElizabethGrosz describes as the ineliminable (Time55) nature of violence that is, violence at thelevel of ontology. Although Deleuze is commonlyassociated with a philosophical positionof affirmation, I contend that his ontology ofdifference and repetition is founded on an originaryspace of differential relations in whichdivergence gives rise to novelty. While there isa high degree of playfulness in this differentialontology, I am interested in the aspects of itthat privilege something darker. Locating violence,dissonance and monstrosity at the veryfoundation of Deleuzes ontology has consequencesfor a Deleuzian ethics. Although thereis undoubtedly significant political value to aworldview in which being is difference,Deleuzes world is not one in which conventionalharmony can exist between differences. Thispaper examines the discord at the heart ofDeleuzes revision of Leibniz, the monstrousdifference that is produced through differentialrelations, and the violence inherent in thought,before turning to ethical questions
Epistemology · Sociology · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
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| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |