Pt3.Ch7.Sb1 Somers-Hall’s Hegel, Deleuze, and the Critique of Representation. ‘Introduction’ summary

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Henry Somers-Hall

 

Hegel, Deleuze, and the Critique of Representation.

Dialectics of Negation and Difference

 

Part 3: Beyond Representation

Chapter 7: Force, Difference, and Opposition

Subdivision 1: Introduction

Brief Summary:

We will examine Hegel’s writings on force and Schelling to see how he might reply to Deleuze’s critique of his representationalism, then we will examine Deleuze’s concept of non-oppositional difference.

Summary

 

In the previous chapter we compared Deleuze’s and Hegel’s interpretation of differential calculus, and we saw from it that Deleuze conceives there being a subrepresentational unconditioned and Hegel an infinite representational unconditioned.

What we note is that our comparison of Deleuze’s and Hegel’s different approaches were not related directly but rather mediated through their work on calculus and Kant’s antinomies. (187) In this chapter we will directly relate their approaches so to “determine what resources either position has to provide a critique of the other.” (187) We will focus on Hegel’s writings on force and Schelling "to provide a critique of Deleuze's dual ontology of virtual and actual”. (187) After that we examine Deleuze’s concept of non-oppositional difference.

 

Somers-Hall, Henry (2012) Hegel, Deleuze, and the Critique of Representation. Dialectics of Negation and Difference. Albany: SUNY.