Deleuze's Kantian Ethos

Cheri Lynne Carr is Associate Professor of Philosophy at CUNY’s LaGuardia Community College. A graduate of the University of Memphis, Dr. Carr researches primarily in Ethics, Feminism, Philosophy for Children, Existentialism & Post-Structuralism, and Kant and the German Enlightenment. Her current research is focused on the work of Deleuze and Guattari and includes subjects of ethics, critique, sublimity, encounter, and the pedagogical and feminist lines of flight opened by schizoanalysis.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: The Problem of a Deleuzian Ethics: Fascism with the Self Part I: Deleuze’s Critical Philosophy: Kantian Critique and the Differential Theory of Faculties 1. The Deleuzian Subject 2. The Theory of Faculties 3. Immanent Critique Part II: Critique as an Ethos: A Handbook for a Way Out 4. Critical Ethos 5. Moral Destiny and Culture 6. ViolenceConclusion: Ethics and the Richness of the Possible

Kant’s ethics might seem far removed from Deleuze’s concerns, but in this remarkable book, Carr shows that Deleuze’s radicalization of Kant’s transcendental method in fact leads to an entirely new concept of normativity, grounded in an ideal of perpetual self-critique and self-creation. Deleuze’s Kantian Ethos is the most original and inventive attempt I have yet read that attempts to elucidate the precise nature of a Deleuzian ethics.