An Ethics of the Event

Deleuze, philosopher, son of Diogenes and Hypatia, sojourned at Lyon. Nothing is known of his life. He lived to be very old, even though he was often very ill. This illustrated what he himself had said: there are lives in which the difficulties verge on the prodigious. He defined as active any force that goes to the end of its power. This, he said, is the opposite of a law. Thus he lived, always going further than he had believed he could. Even though he had explicated Chrysippus, it is above all his steadfastness that earned him the name of Stoic.1 1 André Bernold, “Suidas,” Philosophie 47 (1995): 8–9, at 8 (trans. Timothy S. Murphy; see <http://www.webdeleuze.com>).