Conclusion: Ethics and the Richness of the Possible

By drawing connections between Deleuze’s thought and the thought of Immanuel Kant, a space is allowed to emerge for exploring the development of an ethics from Deleuze’s immanentist reading of Kantian critique. This space calls for an adjustment in expectations surrounding what counts as ethics. For ethics is not merely the articulation of sets of rules or hierarchies of the good. It is also, and perhaps primarily, an attitude toward life that is habituated and cultivates a character. This character – dramatised by figures such as the Apprentice and the Russian idiot in Deleuze’s early work, and expanded to include the nomad, becoming-woman and the minor in his work with Guattari – expresses a way of living Deleuze’s ontology of intensive becoming. Moreover, the space created is one that could not be mapped without the comparison to Kant. The deep logic of the faculties that expresses the dynamic of powerlessness becoming power, the transcendental subject for whom a preparatory education of sensibility in culture is tantamount to the formation of a non-fascistic identity, the connection to the long tradition of critical thinking in education as ...