SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory
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HEGEL, DELEUZE, AND THE CRITIQUE OF REPRESENTATION
Dialectics of Negation and Difference
HENRY SOMERS-HALL
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Hegel, Deleuze, and the critique of representation : dialectics of negation and difference / Henry Somers-Hall.
p. cm. (SUNY series, Intersections: philosophy and critical theory)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 978-1-4384-4009-5 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Representation (Philosophy) 2. Deleuze, Gilles, 19251995. 3. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 17701831. I. Title.
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Figures 14 were based on those from Kline, Mathematics in Western Culture, 464, 473, 474, and 476. Figure 5 was taken from Gray, Ideas of Space, p. 136. Figures 6 and 7 were based on those in Mainzer, Thinking in Complexity, 33. Figure 8 was based on Cohen and Stewart, The Collapse of Chaos, 205. |
ABBREVIATIONS
In citing works in the notes and text, short titles have generally been used. Works frequently cited and works by Deleuze and Hegel have been identified by the following abbreviations:
WORKS BY DELEUZE
ATP | Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus. Trans. Brian Massumi. London: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. |
B | Deleuze, Gilles. Bergsonism. New York, London: Zone, 1988. |
BCD | Deleuze, Gilles. Bergson's Conception of Difference. In Gilles Deleuze, Desert Islands and Other Texts 19531974, ed. David Lapoujade and trans. Daniel W. Smith. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2004. |
D | Deleuze, Gilles, and Claire Parnet, Dialogues II. Trans. J. Tomlinson, B. Habberjam, and E. Albert. London: Continuum, 2002. |
DR | Deleuze, Gilles. Difference and Repetition. Trans. Paul Patton. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. |
LS | Deleuze, Gilles. The Logic of Sense. Trans. Constantin V. Boundas. London: Continuum, 2001. |
N | Deleuze, Gilles. Negotiations, 19721990. Trans. Martin Joughin. New York; Chichester: Columbia University Press, 1995). |
NP | Deleuze, Gilles. Nietzsche and Philosophy. Trans. Hugh Tomlinson. London: Athlone, 1983). |
PrS | Deleuze, Gilles. Proust and Signs. Trans. R. Howard. London: Athlone, 2000. |
S | Deleuze, Gilles. Review of Simondon (1966). in Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy 12:4349. Trans. Ivan Ramirez. |
SPP | Deleuze, Gilles. Spinoza, Practical Philosophy. Trans. R. Hurley. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1988. |
WP | Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. What Is Philosophy? Trans. Graham Birchill and Hugh Tomlinson. London: Verso, 1994. |
WORKS BY HEGEL
EL | Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. The Encyclopaedia Logic, with the Zustze. Trans. Theodore F. Geraets, Wallis Arthur Suchting, and Henry Silton Harris. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1991. |
FK | Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Faith & Knowledge. Trans. Walter Cerf and H. S. Harris. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1977. |
JL | Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. The Jena System, 1804-05: Logic and Metaphysics. Trans. H. S. Harris, John W. Burbidge, and George Di Giovanni. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986. |
LHP | Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Lectures on the History of Philosophy. 3 vols. Trans. Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane and Frances H. Simson. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995, cited by volume then page. |
PN | Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Hegel's Philosophy of Nature. Trans. A. V. Miller. Oxford: Clarendon, 1970. |
PS | Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Phenomenology of Spirit. Trans. J. N. Findlay and Arnold V. Miller. Oxford: Clarendon, 1977. |
RSP | Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. On the Relation of Skepticism to Philosophy. In Di Giovanni, George, and H. S. Harris. Between Kant and Hegel: Texts in the Development of Post-Kantian Idealism. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2000. SL Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Hegel's Science of Logic. Trans. Arnold V. Miller. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, 1989.) |
OTHER FREQUENTLY CITED WORKS
CE | Bergson, Henri. Creative Evolution. Trans. Arthur Miller. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 1998. |
CM | Bergson, Henri. The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics. Trans. M. L. Andison. New York: Wisdom Library, 1946. |
CPR | Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason. Trans. Norman Kemp Smith. London: New York: Macmillan; St. Martin's, 1929. |
EM | Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Eye and Mind. In The Primacy of Perception ed. James M. Edie. Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press, 1964. |
ISA | Porphyry. Isagoge. Trans. Edward W. Warren. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1975. |
MP | Aristotle. Metaphysics. In The Complete Works of Aristotle ed. Jonathan Barnes and trans. W. D. Ross. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1984. |
TE | Sartre, Jean-Paul. The Transcendence of the Ego: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness. Trans. Forrest Williams. New York: Noonday, 1972. |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Most of the ideas behind this book germinated in discussions I had as a graduate student at the University of Warwick, where I found a community made up of a diversity of thinkers with different perspectives and a shared aim of thinking life through philosophy in the broadest possible sense. I would like to thank the following in particular for constituting that community: Darren and Siobhan Ambrose, Gloria Ayob, Tom Barker, Steve Barrell, Joe Bossano, Chris Branson, Marjorie Gracieuse, Tom Greaves, Caleb Heldt, Michael Kolkman, Joe Kuzma, Rhuaridh Macleod, Becky Mahay, Brian Mcstay, Katrina Mitcheson, Scott Revers, Michael Vaughan, Tracy Veck, Lee Watkins, Rafael Winkler, and Pete Wolfendale. As well as students, this book is founded on the education I received at Warwick and owes much in particular to the teaching of Keith Ansell Pearson, Christine Battersby, Miguel Beistegui, David Miller, and Martin Warner. Above all, this work would not have been possible without the guidance of my supervisor, Stephen Houlgate, and I have tried to remain true throughout it to the ideals of engagement, scholarship, and
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