Hegel, Deleuze, and the Critique of Representation - Dialectics of Negation and Difference (Hardcover)

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 of the key targets of Deleuze s philosophical writing, Henry Somers-Hall shows how Deleuze s antipathy to Hegel has its roots in a problem the two thinkers both try to address: getting beyond a philosophy of judgment and the restrictions of Kant s transcendental idealism. By tracing the development of their attempts to address this problem, Somers-Hall offers an interpretation of the sweep of nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophy, providing a series of analyses of key moments in the history of thought, including the logics of Aristotle and Russell, Kant s own philosophy of judgment, and the philosophy of Bergson. He also develops a novel interpretation of Deleuze s philosophy of difference, and situates his philosophy in relation to the broader post-Kantian tradition. In addition to Deleuze s relation to Hegel, the book makes important contributions to the study of Deleuze s philosophy of mathematics, as well as to the study of several underappreciated areas of Hegel s own philosophy."