Reynolds' article 12.1
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Reynolds' article 12.1
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Title
Deleuze’s Other-Structure: Beyond the Master-Slave Dialectic, but at What Cost?
Abstract
Deleuze suggests that his work grounds a new conception of the Other - the Other as expression of a possible world, as a structure that precedes any subsequent dialectical mediation, including the master-slave dialectic of social relations. I will argue, however, that the ethico-political injunction that Deleuze derives from his analysis of the ‘other-structure’ confronts a different problem. It commits Deleuze to either tacitly prescribing a romantic morality of difference that valorizes expressive encounters without ‘relations of explication’ and any kind of pre-understanding (embodied or otherwise), or his continual flirtations with a mystical ‘going beyond’ the other-structure must be more than mere flirtations.
Volume
12.1 (Spring/Printemps 2008)
Pages
67-88
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Citation
“Reynolds' article 12.1,” Symposium, accessed April 29, 2024, http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/symposium/items/show/78.