Hegel, Deleuze, and the Critique of Representation

by Somers-hall, Henry

• ISBN13: 9781438440095
• ISBN10: 143844009X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-04-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Hegel, Deleuze, and the Critique of Representation provides a critical account of the key connections between twentieth-century French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and nineteenth-century German idealist G. W. F. Hegel. While Hegel has been recognized as one

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
List of Abbreviations	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
The Problem of Representation
Deleuze and Transcendental Empiricism	p. 11
Introduction	p. 11
Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason	p. 14
Sartre and The Transcendence of the Ego	p. 23
Deleuze and The Logic of Sense	p. 35
Conclusion	p. 38
Difference and Identity	p. 41
Introduction	p. 41
Aristotle	p. 43
The Genus and Equivocity in Aristotle	p. 49
Change and the Individual	p. 52
Aquinas	p. 55
Symbolic Logic	p. 56
Preliminary Conclusions	p. 61
Hegel and Aristotle	p. 62
Zeno	p. 64
Conclusion	p. 66
Responses to Representation
Bergsonism	p. 69
Introduction	p. 69
Bergson's Account of Kant and Classical Logic	p. 70
Bergson's Method of Intuition	p. 78
Bergson and the Two Kinds of Multiplicity	p. 85
Conclusion	p. 89
The Virtual and the Actual	p. 91
Introduction	p. 91
The Two Multiplicities	p. 93
Depth in Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty	p. 111
Deleuze and the Structure of the Problem	p. 119
Bergson on Ravaisson	p. 121
Conclusion	p. 122
Infinite Thought	p. 125
Introduction	p. 125
Kant and Hegel	p. 125
The Metaphysical Deduction and Metaphysics	p. 134
From Being to Essence	p. 136
The Essential and the Inessential	p. 139
The Structure of Reflection	p. 142
The Determinations of Reflection	p. 146
The Speculative Proposition	p. 150
The Concept of Essence in Aristotle and Hegel	p. 155
Conclusion	p. 157
Beyond Representation
Hegel and Deleuze on Ontology and the Calculus	p. 161
Introduction	p. 161
The Calculus	p. 162
Hegel and the Calculus	p. 166
Berkeley and the Foundations of the Calculus	p. 170
Deleuze and the Calculus	p. 172
Hegel and Deleuze	p. 178
The Kantian Antinomies	p. 179
Conclusion	p. 186
Force, Difference, and Opposition	p. 187
Introduction	p. 187
Force and the Understanding	p. 188
The Inverted World	p. 195
Deleuze and the Inverted World	p. 200
The One and the Many	p. 204
Conclusion	p. 209
Hegel, Deleuze, and the Structure of the Organism	p. 211
Introduction	p. 211
The Philosophy of Nature	p. 212
Hegel and Evolution	p. 214
Hegel's Account of the Structure of the Organism	p. 217
Hegel, Cuvier, and Comparative Anatomy	p. 221
Deleuze, Geoffroy, and Transcendental Anatomy	p. 224
Teratology and Teleology	p. 229
Contingency in Hegel's Philosophy of Nature	p. 233
Conclusion	p. 236
Conclusion	p. 239
Notes	p. 247
Bibliography	p. 275
Index	p. 285
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