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- Title
Desire and Ethics.
- Authors
Buchanan, Ian
- 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.
- Publication
Deleuze Studies, 2011, Vol 5, p7
- ISSN
1750-2241
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.3366/dls.2011.0034