Becoming everyone: The politics of sympathy in Deleuze and Rorty

Radical Philosophy

Volumn , Issue 147, 2008, Pages 33-44

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1. Alain Badiou, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil, trans. Peter Hallward, Verso, London, 2001, p. 9; hereafter cited as E.
2. On 'shame' as a political rather than personal feeling, see Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, What is Philosophy?, trans. Graham Burchell and Hugh Tomlinson (Verso, London, 1994), pp. 107-8; hereafter WP.
3. Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, Dialogues, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam, Columbia University Press, New York, 1987, p. 53; hereafter D.
4. D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1971, pp. 184-5.
5. Jean-Paul Sartre, Black Orpheus, trans. S.W. Allen, Paris, 1963, pp. 44-50.
6. Ibid., pp. 59-60, p. 11.
7. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, trans. Brian Massumi, Athlone Press, London, 1988, p. 472; hereafter TP.
8. TP, p. 291.
9. Genet quoted by Edmund White in his Introduction to Genet's Prisoner of Love, trans. Barbara Bray, Wesleyan University Press, Hanover, 1992, p. ix; hereafter PL.
10. David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1978, p. 363.
11. Gilles Deleuze, Pure Immanence, trans. Anne Boyman, Zone, New York, 2001, pp. 46-7; hereafter PI.
12. Richard Rorty, Philosophy and Social Hope, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1999, p. 82; hereafter PSH;
13. and Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989, p. 64; hereafter CIS.
14. PSH, p. 87.
15. PI, pp. 47-8.
16. CIS, P. xvi.
17. Rorty, Truth and Progress, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998, p. 182; hereafter TAP.
18. Rorty, Essays on Heidegger and Others, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991, p. 79; hereafter EHO.
19. Jean-Paul Sartre, Colonialism and Neocolonialism, trans. A. Haddour, S. Brewer and T. McWilliams, Routledge, London, 2001, pp. 149-50; 52-3.
20. Norman Geras, Solidarity in the Conversation of Mankind, Verso, London, 1995, pp. 97-8.
21. PSH, p. 231.
22. Deleuze, Negotiations, trans. Martin Joughin, Columbia University Press, New York, 1995, p. 171; hereafter N.
23. Paraphrasing Annette Baier, A Progress of Sentiments, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1991, p. 220.
24. Cf. also Treatise, p. 492.
25. Gilles Deleuze, Empiricism and Subjectivity, Columbia University Press, New York, 1991, p. 50; hereafter ES;
26. Hume, A Treatise, p. 581.
27. D.G.C. MacNabb, David Hume, Hutchinson's University Library, London, 1951, p. 192.
28. ES, pp. 43-5.
29. Cf. ES, pp. 41, 51.
30. John Rawls, Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy, Harvard University Press, Harvard, 2000, pp. 64-5.
31. Hume, A Treatise, pp. 501-3.
32. WP, p. 10.
33. Cf. Paul Patton's useful discussion of property rules in 'Utopian Political Thought: Deleuze and Rawls', Deleuze Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 2007, pp. 56-7.
34. D, p. 52.
35. Gilles Deleuze, Essays Critical and Clinical, trans. Daniel Smith and Michael Greco, Verso, London, 1998, p. 1; hereafter ECC.
36. David Hume, Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1975, pp. 222-3;
37. WP, p. 174.
38. WP, p. 164.
39. PI, pp. 28-9;
40. translation slightly altered.
41. 'Introduction' to PI, pp. 14-15.
42. TP, pp. 279-80;
43. D, p. 45.
44. TP, pp. 161, 70.
45. CIS, p. 64. An idea Rorty attributes to Foucault.
46. Cf. Étienne Balibar's outline of a 'politics of civility' in Politics and the Other Scene, trans. Christine Jones, James Swenson and Chris Turner, Verso, London, 2002, pp. 22-35.
47. TP, p. 470.
48. TP, 291.
49. E, p. 108.
50. In Hamid Dabashi, ed., Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema, Verso, London, 2006, p. 59.
51. Gilles Deleuze, Two Regimes of Madness, trans. A. Hodges and M. Taormina, Semiotext(e), New York, 2006, p. 199.
52. E, p. 108.
53. Dreams of a Nation, p. 49.
54. ECC, p. 57.
55. N, pp. 125-6.
56. WP, pp. 177, 197.
57. N, p. 172.
58. For a lucid discussion on this theme, see Daniel Smith, 'Deleuze and the Liberal Tradition', Economy and Society, vol. 32, no. 2, 2003, pp. 320-21.
59. Cf. CIS, p. 94.
60. TP, p. 291.
61. Cf. TAP, p. 185.
62. TP, p. 291.
63. PL, p. 39.
64. PL, p. 167.
65. PL, p. 27.
66. PL, p. 3.
67. Cf. ECC, p. 125.
68. N, p. 174.
69. CIS, pp. 37, 42.
70. CIS, p. 37.
71. CIS, p. 29.
72. WP, pp. 144, 146.
73. I. Stengers, 'Beyond Conversation', in Catherine Keller and Anne Daniell, eds, Process and Difference, SUNY Press, New York, 2002, p. 237.
74. WP, pp. 99-100.
75. Michel Rocard; cited by Peter Hallward, Badiou: A Subject to Truth, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2003, p. 232.
76. Melville, Redburn, ch. 58.
77. On the normative aspect of Deleuze's ontology, see Patton, 'Utopian Political Thought', pp. 42ff.
78. Peter Hallward, 'The Politics of Prescription', South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 104, no. 4, 2005, p. 782.
79. ECC, pp. 86-7.
80. WP, pp. 99-100.
81. Fred Inglis, Obituary for Richard Rorty, Independent, 12 June 2007.
82. PSH, pp. 88, 204.
83. Cf. Hallward, 'The Politics of Prescription', pp. 785-6.
84. Michael McGhee, Transformations of Mind, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000, p. 202.
85. E, p. 14.
86. Stengers, 'Beyond Conversation', p. 255.
87. ECC, p. 87.
88. ECC, p. 127.
89. McGhee, Transformations of Mind, p. 274.
90. Cf. E, p. 49, I would like to thank Gavin Everall, Peter Hallward, John Mullarkey, Peter Osborne and Keith Robinson for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this article.