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Careful becomings: Foucault, Deleuze, and Bergson

Careful becomings: Foucault, Deleuze, and Bergson AbstractThis essay argues for a convergence between, on the one side, Foucault’s characterization of the care of the self as a way of overcoming the traps of anthropological sleep, and on the other side, Deleuze’s characterization of initiating becomings as a way of fleeing the traps of organization, a line of flight, becoming becoming. This convergence is defended on the basis of a Bergsonian ontology of becoming, and in particular, Bergson’s opposition to what he calls the retrograde motion of truth. One result of this convergence is that a Wittgensteinian approach to the sense of life floats to the surface. A kind of mysticism. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Human Affairs de Gruyter

Careful becomings: Foucault, Deleuze, and Bergson

Human Affairs , Volume 27 (4): 16 – Oct 1, 2017

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de Gruyter
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© 2017 Institute for Research in Social Communication, Slovak Academy of Sciences
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1337-401X
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1337-401X
DOI
10.1515/humaff-2017-0033
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Abstract

AbstractThis essay argues for a convergence between, on the one side, Foucault’s characterization of the care of the self as a way of overcoming the traps of anthropological sleep, and on the other side, Deleuze’s characterization of initiating becomings as a way of fleeing the traps of organization, a line of flight, becoming becoming. This convergence is defended on the basis of a Bergsonian ontology of becoming, and in particular, Bergson’s opposition to what he calls the retrograde motion of truth. One result of this convergence is that a Wittgensteinian approach to the sense of life floats to the surface. A kind of mysticism.

Journal

Human Affairsde Gruyter

Published: Oct 1, 2017

Keywords: Foucault; Deleuze; Bergson; Wittgenstein; aesthetics of existence

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