Deleuze’s Stoicism

“How much we have yet to learn from Stoicism …”  ~ Deleuze

In this 2006 paper John Sellars argues that Deleuze’s relationship with Stoicism goes far beyond his explicit comments on the Stoics in The Logic of Sense and that his philosophy as a whole is marked by a deeper Stoicism. It outlines six points of contact between Deleuze and Stoicism, locating the Stoics within Deleuze’s philosophical genealogy, and noting affinities in the areas of what might be labelled ontology, meta-philosophy, psychology, politics, and ethics.

John Sellars is Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at King’s College London, where he specializes in Stoicism, Aristotle and metaphilosophy (whatever that is?).

2 responses to “Deleuze’s Stoicism

  1. geoengineering seems like Reagan’s star-wars program at this point but even if there was a tech solution how would you suggest we organize the mass political movement needed to get it up and running?

    • I don’t think there are answers to these questions and so these seem to me to be among the many alltoohuman limits of our grasps that we need to own so we can get on with the business at hand.

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