Ethics plays a crucial, if subtle, role in Gilles Deleuze's philosophical project. Michel Foucault claimed that Anti-Oedipus was 'a book of ethics, the first book of ethics to be written in France in quite a long time.' But what is the nature of the immanent ethics that is developed in Deleuze's thought? How does it differ from previous conceptions of ethics? And what paths does it open for future thought, given the ethical challenges facing humanity in so many domains?

Each of the eleven essays in this collection explores the ethical dimension of Deleuze's thought along a new and singular trajectory, and in so doing, attempts to reclaim his philosophy as an ethical philosophy.

Contributors include Jeffrey A. Bell, Levi R. Bryant, Laura Cull, Erinn Cunniff Gilson, Eleanor Kaufman, Kenneth Surin, Anthony Uhlmann, James Williams and Audrone Zukauskaite.

Daniel W. Smith is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. Nathan Jun is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Midwestern State University.

Nathan Jun is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Midwestern State University. He edited New Perspectives on Anarchism with Shane Wahl, introduction by Todd May (Lexington Press, 2009).

Daniel W. Smith is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University and one of the world's leading commentators on Deleuze. He has translated his work, edited collections and written numerous articles on Deleuze.

Acknowledgements; Introduction, Nathan Jun; 1. Whistle While You Work: Deleuze and the Spirit of Capitalism, Jeffrey Bell; 2. The Ethics of the Event: Deleuze and Ethics Without ????, Levi R. Bryant; 3. While Remaining on the Shore: Ethics in Deleuze's Encounter with Antonin Artaud, Laura Cull; 4. Responsive Becoming: Ethics Between Deleuze and Feminism, Erinn Gilson; 5. Deleuze, Values, and Normativity, Nathan Jun; 6. Ethics and the World Without Others, Eleanor Kaufman; 7. Deleuze and the Question of Desire: Toward an Immanent Theory of Ethics, Daniel W. Smith; 8. "Existing Not as a Subject But as a Work of Art" - The Task of Ethics or Aesthetics?, Kenneth Surin; 9. Deleuze, Ethics, Ethology and Art, Anthony Uhlmann; 10. Never Too Late? On the Implications of Deleuze's Work on Death For a Deleuzian Moral Philosophy, James Williams; 11. Ethics Between Particularity and Universality, Audron? Zukauskait?; Notes on Contributors; Index.