Henry Somers-Hall

Royal Holloway, University of London | RHUL · Politics, International Relations, and Philosophy

Systematic interpretations of Deleuze’s thought have usually been proposed by those critical of Deleuze’s philosophy, such as Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou, where the aim is to present a single line of attack against Deleuze’s many writings; and so Hanjo Berressem’s positive reading of Deleuze is to be welcomed. Berressem’s aim is not to justify De...

The aim of this paper is to explore Merleau‐Ponty’s ambivalent relationship with Kant’s transcendental philosophy. I begin by looking at several points of convergence between Kant and Merleau‐Ponty, focusing on the affinities between Kant’s account of transcendental realism and Merleau‐Ponty’s notion of objective thought. I then show how Merleau‐Po...

The aim of this paper is to provide a close reading of Deleuze's complex account of Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle in Difference and Repetition. The first part provides a reading of Beyond the Pleasure Principle itself, showing why Freud feels the need to develop a transcendental account of repetition. In the second, I show the limitations o...

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of Henri Bergson to the philosophical development of Jean-Paul Sartre's thought. Despite Sartre's early enthusiasm for Bergson's description of consciousness, and the frequent references to Bergson in Sartre's early work, there has been virtually no analysis of the influence of Bergson's though...

Deleuze’s philosophy of painting can be seen to pose certain challenges to a phenomenological approach to philosophy. While a phenomenological response to Deleuze’s philosophy is clearly needed, I show in this article how an approach taken in a recent paper by Christian Lotz proves inadequate. Lotz argues that through Deleuze’s refusal to accept th...

The aim of this paper is to explore Deleuze's use of Kant's argument from incongruent counterparts, which Kant uses to show the existence of what he calls an “internal difference” within things. I want to explore how Deleuze draws out an important distinction between the concept and the Idea, and provides an incisive account of his relationship to...

A step-by-step guide to Deleuze's Difference and Repetition that helps students to negotiate Deleuze's vast range of sources and difficult, dense language. It is an essential toolkit for anyone approaching Deleuze for the first time.

The aim of this chapter is to provide an account of Deleuze and Guattari's model of the rhizome, and to look at a possible Hegelian line of response to it. After outlining why Deleuze and Guattari feel the need to move away from an arborescent model of thought, such as underlies the structure of judgment, I look at Hegel's description of plant life...

Gilles Deleuze (1925–95) was an influential and provocative twentieth-century thinker who developed and presented an alternative to the image of thought found in traditional philosophy. This volume offers an extensive survey of Deleuze's philosophy by some of his most influential interpreters. The essays give lucid accounts of the fundamental theme...

Gregg Lambert's aim is not so much to show the errors of readings and critiques put forward by the academic establishment — although he does this — but rather to show that Deleuze and Guattari's work operates according to an element outside of 'the normal protocols of hermeneutic activity' (p. 6). As such, the 'who' of the title refers to those lit...

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 i...

The aim of this paper is to explore why Deleuze takes up Hamlet's claim that ‘time is out of joint’. In the first part of this paper, I explore this claim by looking at how Deleuze relates it to Plato's Timaeus and its conception of the relationship between movement and time. Once we have seen how time functions when it is ‘in joint’, I explore wha...

The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com The aim of this paper is to explore the uses made of the calculus by Gilles Deleuze and G. W. F. Hegel. I show how both Deleuze and Hegel see the calculus as providing a way of thinking outside of finite representation. For Hegel, this involves attempting to show that the foundations of...

The aim of this paper is to explore why Deleuze takes up Hamlet’s claim that ‘time is out of joint,’ and to show how Deleuze’s metaphysical reading of this claim illuminates the structure of Hamlet,/em> itself. In the first part of this paper, I explore this claim by looking at how Deleuze relates it to Plato’s Timaeus and its conception of the rel...

This thesis has the following aims. First, to show that Deleuze can be situated clearly within the post-Kantian tradition. This is achieved through an analysis of the relations between Kant's transcendental idealism and Deleuze's transcendental empiricism. Second, to explore the criticisms of representational theories of difference which can be fou...