O'Sullivan, Simon D.. 2014. A Life Between the Finite and Infinite: Remarks on Deleuze, Badiou and Western Buddhism. Deleuze Studies, 8(2), pp. 256-279. ISSN 1750-2241 [Article]

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This article explores the resonances between certain concepts of Deleuze and Badiou and a Western Buddhism that is figured, in Foucault's terminology, as a particular ‘technology of the self’. In particular Deleuze's readings of Bergson and Spinoza are brought into encounter with Buddhist doctrine and practice alongside a consideration of the figure of the bodhisattva who is further compared to Badiou's account of the subject. At stake in these enquiries and experimental conjunctions is the laying out of a particular – and liveable – diagram of the finite–infinite relation, or, we might say, a specifically Western dharma for a contemporary production of subjectivity.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.3366/dls.2014.0145
Keywords:	Buddhism, Badiou, Bergson, Spinoza, meditation, ethics
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Visual Cultures
Dates:	Date Event 31 May 2014 Published
Item ID:	15376
Date Deposited:	09 Dec 2015 18:36
Last Modified:	16 Apr 2020 08:31
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/15376

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