Henry Somers-Hall - Deleuze's Difference and Repetition (An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide) - EUP, Uk, March 2013

The essential toolkit for anyone approaching Deleuze for the

 first time

When students read Difference and Repetition for the first time, they face two main hurdles: the wide range of sources that Deleuze draws upon and his dense writing style. This Edinburgh Philosophical Guide helps students to negotiate these hurdles, taking them through the text paragraphy by paragraph. It situates Deleuze within Continental philosophy more broadly and explains why he develops his philosophy in his unique way.

If you're a seasoned Deleuzian, there's something here for you too: you won't want to miss Henry Somers-Hall’s new, positive interpretation of Difference and Repetition.

Henry Somers-Hall is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Hegel, Deleuze, and the Critique of Representation - Henry Somers-Hall (Suny Press, Usa, April 2012)

A critical account of the key connections between twentieth-century French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and nineteenth-century German idealist G. W. F. Hegel. 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. 


Table of Contents:
PART ONE: THE PROBLEM OF REPRESENTATION

1. Deleuze and Transcendental Epiricism

Introduction
Kant and the Critique of Pure ReasonSartre and The Transcendence of the EgoDeleuze and The Logic of SenseConclusion

2. Difference and Identity

Introduction
Aristotle
The Genus and Equivocity in Aristotle
Change and the Individual
Aquinas
Symbolic Logic
Preliminary Conclusions
Hegel and Aristotle
Zeno
Conclusion

PART TWO: RESPONSES TO REPRESENTATION

3. Bergsonism

Introduction
Bergson’s Account of Kant and Classical Logic
Bergson’s Method of Intuition
Bergson and the Two Kinds of Multiplicity
Conclusion

4. The Virtual and the Actual

Introduction
The Two Multiplicities
Depth in Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty
Deleuze and the Structure of the Problem
Bergson on Ravaisson
Conclusion

5. Infinite Thought

Introduction
Kant and Hegel
The Metaphysical Deduction and Metaphysics
From Being to Essence
The Essential and the Inessential
The Structure of Reflection
The Determinations of Reflection
The Speculative Proposition
The Concept of Essence in Aristotle and Hegel
Conclusion

PART THREE: BEYOND REPRESENTATION

6. Hegel and Deleuze on Ontology and the Calculus

Introduction
The Calculus
Hegel and the Calculus
Berkeley and the Foundations of the Calculus
Deleuze and the Calculus
Hegel and Deleuze
The Kantian Antinomies
Conclusion

7. Force, Difference, and Opposition

Introduction
Force and the Understanding
The Inverted World
Deleuze and the Inverted World
The One and the Many
Conclusion

8. Hegel, Deleuze, and the Structure of the Organism

Introduction
The Philosophy of Nature
Hegel and Evolution
Hegel’s Account of the Structure of the Organism
Hegel, Cuvier, and Comparative Anatomy
Deleuze, Geoffroy, and Transcendental Anatomy
Teratology and Teleology
Contingency in Hegel’s Philosophy of NatureConclusion


 “This is the most comprehensive and philosophically interesting analysis of the Deleuze-Hegel relation. Somers-Hall has assembled a remarkable amount of material that is quite diverse—from the problems of representation, judgment, and calculus to those of force and evolution—and his interpretations are masterful. This book will have a significant impact on the way we think about the development of twentieth-century philosophy.” — Leonard Lawlor, Sparks Professor of Philosophy, Penn State University 


“Somers-Hall’s book is a profound engagement with both Deleuze and Hegel, and it provides a much-needed antidote to interpretations that all-too-quickly characterize Deleuze as anti-Hegelian.” — Daniel W. Smith, coeditor of Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text 


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.


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27.10.2011 - Gilles Deleuze. The Intensive Reduction - Constantin V. Boundas (Continuum, Uk, Paperback)

Pub. date: 27 Oct 2011 (Paperback)
Pub. date: 15 Feb 2009 (Hardcover)

Description

Gilles Deleuze: The Intensive Reduction brings together eighteen essays written by an internationally acclaimed team of scholars to provide a comprehensive overview of the work of Gilles Deleuze, one of the most important and influential European thinkers of the twentieth century. Each essay addresses a central issue in Deleuze’s philosophy (and that of his regular co-author, Félix Guattari) that remains to this day controversial and unsettled. 
Since Deleuze’s death in 1995, the technical aspects of his philosophy have been largely neglected. These essays address that gap in the existing scholarship by focusing on his contribution to philosophy. Each contributor advances the discussion of a contested point in the philosophy of Deleuze to shed new light on as yet poorly-understood problems and to stimulate new and vigorous exchanges regarding his relationship to philosophy, schizoanlysis, his aesthetic, ethical and political thought. 
Together, the essays in this volume make an invaluable contribution to our understanding of Deleuze’s philosophy.

Introduction 
Part I: Deleuze and Philosophy 1. Deleuze and the Question of Ontology, Véronique Bergen (University of Paris VIII, France) 
2. The 'Future' of Deleuze: An Unfinished Project, Zsuzsa Baross (Trent University, Canada) 
3. The New Harmony, Ronald Bogue (University of Georgia, USA) 
4. The New Whitehead?: An Ontology of the 'Virtual' in Whitehead's Metaphysics,Keith Robinson (Davenport University, USA) 
Part II: Schizoanalysis and Lacan
5. On the Idea of Pure Practical Reason in Kant, Deleuze and Lacan, Andrew Cutrofello (Loyola University Chicago, USA) 
6. What if the Law is Written in a Porno Book? Deterritorializing Lacan, De-Oedipalizing Deleuze and Guattari, Shannon Winnubst (Southwestern University, USA)
7. From the Surface to the Depths: On the Transition from Logic of Sense to Anti-Oedipus, Daniel W. Smith (Purdue University, USA) 
Part III: Deleuze and the Arts 8. Deleuze, Philosophy and the Materiality of Painting, Darren Ambrose (University of Warwick, UK) 
9. Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty: Aesthetics of Difference, Henry Somers-Hall (University of Warwick, UK)
10. From the Death of the Author to the Disappearance of the Reader, Bruce Baugh (University College of the Cariboo, Canada) 
Part IV: Deleuze: The Ethical and the Political 11. Affirmation versus Vulnerability: On Contemporary Ethical Debates, Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) 
12. From First Sparks to Local Clashes: Which Politics Today?, Philippe Mengue (Collège International de Philosophie, Paris, France) 
13. Deleuze's Practical Philosophy, Paul Patton (University of New South Wales, Australia) 
14. Gilles Deleuze's Politics: From Marxism to the Missing People, Alain Beaulieu (University of Sudbury, Canada) 
15. Affirmative Nomadology and War Machine, Eugene Holland (Ohio State University, USA) 
16. Deleuze and the 'Pairing at a Distance', Arnaud Villani (Lycée Masséna, Nice, France) 
List of Contributors 
Index

Author(s)

Constantin V. Boundas,

Constantin V. Boundas is Professor of Philosophy at Trent University, Canada. He is the editor of The Deleuze Reader (Columbia UP, 1993) and, with Dorothea Olkowski, The Theater of Philosophy: Critical Essays on Gilles Deleuze (Routledge, 1994). He is also the translator of Deleuze's The Logic of Sense (Continuum, 2002) andEmpiricism and Subjectivity (Columbia UP, 1991).

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