Immanent evaluation

Immanentevaluation is a conceptused by Gilles Deleuzein Nietzscheand Philosophy (1962), opposed to transcendentjudgment.

Nietzsche had argued, in On the Genealogy of Morals, that moral philosophywas nihilistin its judgment of the worldbased on transcendent values: lifewas rejected by such philosophy, which Schopenhauerpushed to its extreme meaning, to the profit of non-existent other worlds. Deleuze would start from this argumentation, linking it with Antonin Artaud's Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu ("To finish with god's judgment" - the absence of capitals is purposeful).

Immanent evaluation, as opposed to transcendent judgment, evaluates forcesaccording to two Nietzschean categories: active and reactive. Apart from Nietzsche, a similar example of immanent evaluation can be found in Spinoza's anomaly (A. Negri), where affectsconstitutes the only form of evaluation.

See also

• Judgment (philosophy)

References

• Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy (1962)

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