By Andrew M. Jampol-Petzinger
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date: 03/25/2022
Description:
The first comprehensive consideration of the relationship between Gilles Deleuze’s and Søren Kierkegaard’s philosophies, with a focus on the intersection between their shared ideas of ethics “beyond” morality and the self. Moving beyond narrow disagreements regarding theology, Andrew M. Jampol-Petzinger shows how common emphases on metaphysical premises, including the elevation of concepts like “repetition,” “becoming” and concreteness, underlie both philosophers’ views of ethics as a matter of realizing the immanent features of one’s identity, while at the same time suspending outdated metaphysical assumptions about the trans-temporal substantiality of the self. Jampol-Petzinger argues that these philosophers’ convictions regarding the “porousness” of the self lends itself, ultimately, to the possibility of a political uptake of their ethical thought–one which sheds light on the immediately political stakes of individual projects of growth and becoming.