Pursuing joy with Deleuze : transcendental empiricism and affirmative naturalism as worldly practice

Heaney, Conor (2018) Pursuing joy with Deleuze : transcendental empiricism and affirmative naturalism as worldly practice. Deleuze and Guattari Studies, 12 (3). pp. 374-401. ISSN 2398-9785 (https://doi.org/10.3366/dlgs.2018.0317)

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Abstract

In this paper, I seek to extract what I call an empiricist mode of existence through a combined reading of two under-researched vectors of Gilles Deleuze's thought: his 'transcendental empiricism' and his 'affirmative naturalism'. This empiricist mode of existence co-positions Deleuze's empiricism and naturalism as pertaining to a stylistics of life which is ontologically experimentalist, epistemologically open, and immanently engaged in the world. That is, a processual praxis of demystification and organising encounters towards joy.

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