Deleuze, Kierkegaard, and the Ethics of Selfhood , by Andrew M. Jampol-Petzinger
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Abstract
In Deleuze, Kierkegaard, and the Ethics of Selfhood, Jampol-Petzinger presents his argument in five chapters.The text also includes a robust introduction and a brief conclusion.Deleuze, Kierkegaard, and the Ethics of Selfhood begins with an essential question; "why Deleuze and Kierkegaard?"(1).Though it is true that one does not find Kierkegaard's name among the titles of the many monographs and co-authored works on various philosophers and artists that Deleuze published throughout his lifetime, one gets the sense that the Danish philosopher was never far from Deleuze's mind.This much is apparent when one notices how some of the main claims of Kierkegaard's slim volume on the topic of repetition seem to pre-figure some of the substantive themes of Deleuze's Difference and Repetition.One might observe a further connection between the thought of Deleuze and Kierkegaard when one notices that the Danish philosopher is mentioned in the second volume of Deleuze's and Guattari's Capitalism and Schizophrenia, as well as Cinema 2: the Time-Image.Finally, one might observe that Deleuze discusses Kierkegaard in numerous seminars on a range of topics that were during the first six years of the nineteen-eighties.It is almost as though Kierkegaardian themes were so many musical refrains to which Deleuze kept returning throughout his life.Given this, it is quite striking that a book about Deleuze and Kierkegaard has not been published until now.In his first chapter, Jampol-Petzinger begins with the modest claim that Kierkegaard and Deleuze "inherit a notion of 'dissolved' subjectivity from the post-Kantian philosophy" (7).The sentiment here enjoys some support, in the sense that Kierkegaard's proto-existentialist account of human subjectivity does seem to be related to Fichte's account of a self-positing subjectivity that functions as the ontological basis of scientific knowledge.Jampol-Petzinger's argument finds much firmer footing when he turns to Deleuze's reading of Nietzsche.While it is a matter of some dispute how well Kierkegaard was acquainted with Fichte's thought, there is no doubt about Deleuze's debt to Nietzsche (and Pierre Klossowski's wonderful text on Nietzsche's concept of the eternal return).Some of Jampol-Petzinger's most astute observations are found in his analysis of the Nietzschean claim -from the second essay of On the Genealogy of Morality -that the self is a multiplicity.These metaphysical analyses continue -albeit with a different objectin Jampol-Petzinger's second chapter.Here, the ambit is Kierkegaard's and Deleuze's competing analyses of repetition.Jampol-Petzinger should be commended for analyzing Kierkegaard's Repetition, which is a notoriously opaque
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".