Table of contents : Cover Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Note on References Introduction Toward a Minor Ethics Intermezzo Affection and Becoming 1 The Affective Milieu of Ethical Life in Aristotle and Deleuze 2 Undoing the Self: Augustine’s Confessions as a Work of Ethical Becoming 3 Tamed Affect: A Deleuzian Theory of Moral Sentiments Intermezzo Repetition and Affirmation 4 A Memorandum for Past Millennia: Excising the Plague from Lucretius’s De rerum natura 5 Kierkegaard and the Logic of Sense 6 Amor Fati in Nietzsche, Shestov, Fondane, and Deleuze 7 Kant’s Conception of the Will: The Minor Categorical Imperative Intermezzo Assemblage and Multiplicity 8 Attention and Decreation as Deterritorializing Practices: Toward a Weilian Minor Politics 9 Toward a Minor Ethics of the Impersonal Life: Gilles Deleuze and Roberto Esposito 10 Césaire and Senghor alongside Deleuze: Post-Imperial Multiplicity, Virtual Assemblages, and the Cosmopolitan Ethics of Négritude Postscript Minor Ethics and the Practice of History Bibliography Contributors Index