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This chapter examines the character and orientation of Deleuze’s immanent ethics. Consistent with this ethics, the chapter will examine how a body’s power of acting may be extended in an everyday practice of health and wellbeing. Central to this task will be the identification of immanent criteria for modifying assemblages in the interest of promoting health. Reflecting the substantive account of health proposed in earlier chapters, Chapter Six will align a Deleuzian health ethics with the goal of becoming reasonable, strong and free. I will then proceed to examine Foucault’s cognate “aesthetics of existence” in an effort to indicate how this goal may be realised in the active promotion of health. The sixth chapter will thus complete the task initiated in the first chapter of presenting the rudiments of a minor science of health and illness, and the normative and ethical innovations associated with it.
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Duff, C. (2014). The Ethics of an Assemblage of Health. In: Assemblages of Health. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8893-9_6
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