Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Whistle While You Work: Deleuze and the Spirit of Capitalism
- 2 The Ethics of the Event: Deleuze and Ethics without Aρχή
- 3 While Remaining on the Shore: Ethics in Deleuze's Encounter with Antonin Artaud
- 4 Responsive Becoming: Ethics between Deleuze and Feminism
- 5 Deleuze, Values, and Normativity
- 6 Ethics and the World without Others
- 7 Deleuze and the Question of Desire: Towards an Immanent Theory of Ethics
- 8 “Existing Not as a Subject But as a Work of Art”: The Task of Ethics or Aesthetics?
- 9 Deleuze, Ethics, Ethology, and Art
- 10 Never Too Late? On the Implications of Deleuze's Work on Death for a Deleuzian Moral Philosophy
- 11 Ethics between Particularity and Universality
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
4 - Responsive Becoming: Ethics between Deleuze and Feminism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Whistle While You Work: Deleuze and the Spirit of Capitalism
- 2 The Ethics of the Event: Deleuze and Ethics without Aρχή
- 3 While Remaining on the Shore: Ethics in Deleuze's Encounter with Antonin Artaud
- 4 Responsive Becoming: Ethics between Deleuze and Feminism
- 5 Deleuze, Values, and Normativity
- 6 Ethics and the World without Others
- 7 Deleuze and the Question of Desire: Towards an Immanent Theory of Ethics
- 8 “Existing Not as a Subject But as a Work of Art”: The Task of Ethics or Aesthetics?
- 9 Deleuze, Ethics, Ethology, and Art
- 10 Never Too Late? On the Implications of Deleuze's Work on Death for a Deleuzian Moral Philosophy
- 11 Ethics between Particularity and Universality
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores the possibility of an alliance between Deleuze's philosophy and feminist philosophy with respect to ethics. I begin by specifying some of the general points of convergence between Deleuzian ethics and feminist ethics. In the second section, I turn away from feminist ethics in particular to consider feminist engagement with Deleuze's (and Deleuze and Guattari's) work; in this section, I describe the central criticisms of Deleuze offered by feminist philosophers and point out the aspects of his thought that have been valuable for feminist theorizing. In order to respond to what I take to be the overarching concern feminists have about Deleuze's philosophy, the third section develops a proposal for a Deleuzian conception of ethics that is able to do (much of) what feminists require of an ethical theory.
Ethics Away from Tradition
Feminist ethics emerged as a unique subdiscipline in the 1970s and 1980s in particular through the work of Nel Noddings and Carol Gilligan. While it has become a diverse field with various perspectives and threads of interest, I will attempt briefly to draw a general picture of the concerns that animate it so that we might see in what ways Deleuzian ethics and feminist ethics may coincide. Central to feminist ethics is both a critical perspective, criticizing gender bias and the attendant gender-associated dualisms within mainstream ethics and the history of ethics, and a reconstructive endeavor to provide a more adequate ethical theory (Held 1990).
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- Deleuze and Ethics , pp. 63 - 88Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2011