A Life Between The Finite And Infinite: Remarks on Deleuze, Badiou and Western Buddhism

Deleuze and Guatarri Studies 8 (2):256-279 (2014)
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Abstract

This article explores the resonances between certain concepts of Deleuze and Badiou and a Western Buddhism that is figured, in Foucault's terminology, as a particular ‘technology of the self’. In particular Deleuze's readings of Bergson and Spinoza are brought into encounter with Buddhist doctrine and practice alongside a consideration of the figure of the bodhisattva who is further compared to Badiou's account of the subject. At stake in these enquiries and experimental conjunctions is the laying out of a particular – and liveable – diagram of the finite–infinite relation, or, we might say, a specifically Western dharma for a contemporary production of subjectivity

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Matter and Memory.Henri Bergson - 1912 - Mineola, N.Y.: MIT Press. Edited by Paul, Nancy Margaret, [From Old Catalog], Palmer & William Scott.
Spinoza, practical philosophy.Gilles Deleuze - 1988 - San Francisco: City Lights Books.
Logique du sens.Gilles Deleuze - 1969 - Paris,: Éditions de Minuit.
Being and event.Alain Badiou - 2005 - New York: Continuum. Edited by Oliver Feltham.
Bergsonism.Gilles Deleuze - 1988 - New York: Zone Books.

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