Deleuze, Hegel and the transformation of subjectivity'

Philosophical Forum

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 143-158

  Lumsden, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1111/1467-9191.00086     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. From The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, trans. by William Lovitt (New York: Harper and Row, 1977): p. 128
2. Difference and Repetition, trans. by Paul Patton (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994). Différence et Répétition (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1968), hereafter cited as DR. French page numbers follow page numbers from the English translation
3. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. by A. V. Miller (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977). Volume 9 of Gesammelte Werke, ed. by H-F. Wessels and H. Clairmont (Hamburg: Meiner, 1988), hereafter cited as PhG. German page numbers follow paragraph numbers from the English translation, PhG §25/18
4. Dominique Janicaud and Jean-Luc Marion see Heidegger as falling into this camp as well; see their respective essays "The Final Appeal of the Subject" and "The Question of the Subject in Heidegger's Being and Time" in Deconstructive Subjectivities, ed. by Simon Critchley and Peter Dews (Albany: SUNY, 1996)
5. See, for example, Robert Pippin, Hegel's Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self Consciousness (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989)
6. and his Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
7. Terry Pinkard Hegel's Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
8. Stephen Houlgate, Freedom, Truth and History (London: Routledge, 1991)
9. and Paul Redding, Hegel's Hermeneutics (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996)
10. G. W. F. Hegel, The Encyclopaedia Logic: Part One of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences. Trans. by T. F. Garaets, W. A. Suchting, and H. S. Harris (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1991): §20R
11. Nietzsche and Philosophy. Trans. by Hugh Tomlinson (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983); hereafter cited as NP
12. This claim is repeated in NP p. 4. See Bruce Baugh, "Transcendental Empiricism: Deleuze's Response to Hegel" in Man and World 25 (1992): 133-4-8
13. "A Philosophical Concept ..." in Who Comes After the Subject? Ed. by E. Cadava, et al. (New York: Routledge, 1991): p. 95
14. Michael Hardt, Gilles Deleuze (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993): p. 38
15. See Catherine Malabou, "Who's Afraid of Hegelian Wolves?" in Deleuze: A Critical Reader, ed. by Paul Patton (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997)
16. Deleuze's reading of Nietzsche as above all anti-Hegelian has been convincingly presented as exaggerated on numerous occasions and I do not wish to engage with this here; see in particular Daniel Breazeale, "The Hegel-Nietzsche Problem" in Nietzsche-Studien 4 (1975), pp. 146-64
17. Stephen Houlgate, Hegel, Nietzsche and the Critique of Metaphysics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986)
18. and Robert R. Williams, Hegel's Ethics of Recognition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997)
19. Hegel's critique of the reign of terror in the Philosophy of Right offers a very similar argument; there he sees the identity that the reign of terror seeks to establish as a purely negative expression of the will. See his Elements of the Philosophy of Right, ed. by Allen W. Wood, trans. by H. B. Nisbet (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), §5z
20. Hegel's consideration of the role of the empirical has to be understood in light of his attempt to overcome the gap that he thinks Kant places between consciousness and world, because of the way Kant conceives the concept-intuition distinction. On the importance of this issue in Hegel's thought, see Robert Pippin, "Hegel's Original Insight" in International Philosophical Quarterly 33 (September 1993): 285-95
21. I discuss this issue in more detail in "A Subject for Hegel's Logic" in International Philosophical Quarterly 40 (March 2000): 85-99
22. Again, this contrasts with the reading of Hegel by Philip Goodchild, Deleuze and Guittari: An Introduction to the Politics of Desire (London: Sage, 1996), p. 53
23. For a thorough reappraisal of this issue in Hegel and German Idealism in general, see Paul Redding, The Logic of Affect (Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1999). chapters 4-7