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Od ontologii do etyki wydarzenia
From Ontology To the Ethics of the Event

Author(s): Michał Herer
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: the incorporeal; event; sense; paradox; ethics; eternal return; stoics; affirmation; athleticism.

Summary/Abstract: The text is an attempt of a double reading of Gilles Deleuze’s Logic of Sense as an otology of incorporeal events as well as an ethics calling for “being worthy of what happens to us”. The first aspect refers to the necessity of overcoming phenomenology and revisiting the foundations of transcendentalism, while in his ethics of the event Deleuze draws inspiration from stoics and Nietzsche, as well as writers like Bousquet, Lowry and Fitzgerald. It is an ethics based on the imperative of affirmation of the world as becoming – an affirmation both on the level or surface of the pure thought and in one’s own body, for which such an act means always a kind of wound or the threat of breakdown.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 05
  • Page Range: 69-82
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish