I say YES

According to Deleuze, the Nietzschean "affirmation" cannot be opposed to "negation”.

Instead, it should be read as a multiplicity of becoming that exists in the play of its difference. Here, Nietzsche, as the philosopher of multiplicity, influences not only Deleuze, but Derrida and Foucault as well. Yet, along with a philosophy of multiplicity, poststructuralists, as neo-Nietzscheans, inherit the standard accusations that are leveled against Nietzsche:that they are unable to account for agency, responsibility, rationality, human nature, community, and ethical and political values.

In Critical Resistance, these accusations are met head on. Not only can poststructuralism account for these notions, but, it can, also redeploy them as a radical means of critical resistance,which, with a Nietzschean edge, is resistance that is self critical— resistance that resists itself.

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Trading security for freedom

Zygmunt Bauman gives short shrift to the charge of pessimism: we have enough court poets and enough triumphalism in liberal capitalism, he comments drily, so why should he point out its virtues?

In fact he is much more optimistic in person than in his published work. His current thinking can be summed up in one of his favourite phrases:

Do we take "responsibility for our responsibility"?

Do we acknowledge and accept our responsibilities, be they personal, political or global?

Indeed, much of his writing on globalisation focuses on his claim that it is primarily a moral issue. Bauman points out that Freud's thesis that human beings had traded freedom for security has been inverted; now we have traded security for freedom and with that freedom has come unprecedented responsibilities for the conduct of our own emotional lives and for our political participation.

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Affirmation cannot be simply opposed to negation

According to Deleuze, the Nietzschean "affirmation" cannot be opposed to "negation”.

Instead, it should be read as a multiplicity of becoming that exists in the play of its difference. Here, Nietzsche, as the philosopher of multiplicity, influences not only Deleuze, but Derrida and Foucault as well. Yet, along with a philosophy of multiplicity, poststructuralists, as neo-Nietzscheans, inherit the standard accusations that are leveled against Nietzsche:

that they are unable to account for agency, responsibility, rationality, human nature, community, and ethical and political values.

In Critical Resistance, these accusations are met head on. Not only can poststructuralism account for these notions, but, it can, also redeploy them as a radical means of critical resistance,
which, with a Nietzschean edge, is resistance that is self critical— resistance that resists itself.


Download ebooks on http://www.frenchtheory.com/ - See that post with different algorithms in metabole - See the journal French Metablog with today different posts-Enter Hypertextopia-PHONEREADER Library -- Jean-Philippe Pastor