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53Resolving the Paradox of Phenomenology through Kant's Aesthetics: Between Merleau-Ponty and DeleuzeJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 49 (1): 71-86. 2018.Commentators have claimed that the philosophies of Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze converge upon a spatial field of sensation which is prior to representation. This essay will contest these readings by showing that, for Deleuze, the pre-representational spatial field of intensity is fundamentally split from thought. This “gap” between sensation and thought is, for Deleuze, fundamentally temporal, in that thought is continually open and passive to being violated and transformed by the sensible and the …Read more
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28Love, Language and the Dramatization of Ethical Worlds in DeleuzeDeleuze and Guatarri Studies 10 (1): 100-116. 2016.Dramatization has been conceived by some Deleuze scholars as ‘dramatizing’ the mode of existence of a subject. This paper argues, on the contrary, dramatization involves the very creation of a viewpoint on the world. The ethical significance of dramatization is not the ability to ‘evaluate’ certain subjective modes of existence, but to produce ways of unfolding the world in which we do not ‘imprison’ others and in which multiple perspectives are allowed to unfold. Love is incapable of such a tru…Read more
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20th Century Philosophy |
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