Somers-Hall Hegel, Deleuze, and the Critique of Representation

Dialectics of Negation and Difference
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4010-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 305 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory

A critical account of the key connections between twentieth-century French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and nineteenth-century German idealist G. W. F. Hegel.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Somers-Hall, Henry

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

PART ONE: THE PROBLEM OF REPRESENTATION

1. Deleuze and Transcendental Epiricism

Introduction
Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason
Sartre and The Transcendence of the Ego
Deleuze and The Logic of Sense
Conclusion

2. Difference and Identity

Introduction
Aristotle
The Genus and Equivocity in Aristotle
Change and the Individual
Aquinas
Symbolic Logic
Preliminary Conclusions
Hegel and Aristotle
Zeno
Conclusion

PART TWO: RESPONSES TO REPRESENTATION

3. Bergsonism

Introduction
Bergson’s Account of Kant and Classical Logic
Bergson’s Method of Intuition
Bergson and the Two Kinds of Multiplicity
Conclusion

4. The Virtual and the Actual

Introduction
The Two Multiplicities
Depth in Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty
Deleuze and the Structure of the Problem
Bergson on Ravaisson
Conclusion

5. Infinite Thought

Introduction
Kant and Hegel
The Metaphysical Deduction and Metaphysics
From Being to Essence
The Essential and the Inessential
The Structure of Reflection
The Determinations of Reflection
The Speculative Proposition
The Concept of Essence in Aristotle and Hegel
Conclusion

PART THREE: BEYOND REPRESENTATION

6. Hegel and Deleuze on Ontology and the Calculus

Introduction
The Calculus
Hegel and the Calculus
Berkeley and the Foundations of the Calculus
Deleuze and the Calculus
Hegel and Deleuze
The Kantian Antinomies
Conclusion

7. Force, Difference, and Opposition

Introduction
Force and the Understanding
The Inverted World
Deleuze and the Inverted World
The One and the Many
Conclusion

8. Hegel, Deleuze, and the Structure of the Organism

Introduction
The Philosophy of Nature
Hegel and Evolution
Hegel’s Account of the Structure of the Organism
Hegel, Cuvier, and Comparative Anatomy
Deleuze, Geoffroy, and Transcendental Anatomy
Teratology and Teleology
Contingency in Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature
Conclusion

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Henry Somers-Hall is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom. He is the cotranslator (with Alistair Welchman, Mergen Reglitz, and Nick Midgley) of Salomon Maimon's Essay on Transcendental Philosophy.