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Hegel and Deleuze: Together Again for the First Time
ISBN: 9780810166530
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Northwestern University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1770–1831; Deleuze Gilles 1925–1995; Philosophy Modern;

Hegel and Deleuze cannily examines the various resonances and dissonances between these two major philosophers. The collection represents the best in contemporary international scholarship on G. W. F. Hegel and Gilles Deleuze, and the contributing authors inhabit the as-yet uncharted space between the two thinkers, collectively addressing most of the major tensions and resonances between their ideas and laying a solid ground for future scholarship.

The essays are organized thematically into two groups: those that maintain a firm but nuanced disjunction or opposition between Hegel and Deleuze, and those that chart possible connections, syntheses, or both. As is clear from this range of texts, the challenges involved in grasping, appraising, appropriating, and developing the systems of Deleuze and Hegel are varied and immense. While neither Hegel nor Deleuze gets the last word, the contributors ably demonstrate that partisans of either can no longer ignore the voice of the other.

Karen Houle is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. She is the author of numerous articles on Deleuze, as well as on Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and other philosophers. Her book Responsibility, Complexity and Abortion: Toward a New Image of Ethical Thought is forthcoming in 2013.

Jim Vernon is an associate professor of philosophy at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Hegel's Philosophy of Language (2007) and numerous articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century European philosophy.