Deleuze's Hegel: Criticism and Praise at the Edges of Thought?

FERREYRA, JULIAN

Deleuze at the End of the World: South American Perspectives

Rowman & LIttlefield

Lugar: New York; Año: 2020; p. 85 - 101

Section two, ?At the End of theHistory of Philosophy,? begins with Julián Ferreyra?s foray intothe numerous Deleuzian critiques of the philosophy of Hegel. Heorganizes these critiques according to the three books of the Scienceof Logic addressing:1) the Doctrine of Being and the false beginning; 2)the Doctrine ofEssence and negation as the engine of movement; 3) the Doctrine ofthe Concept and the identity toward which all differences areconducted by the circle of return (Rückkehr).For Ferreyra, these criticisms are linked in an order of increasingcomplexity that, for him, serve to deepen the dimensions of Hegelianthought. However, the isolated consideration of these criticismshides the nature of the problem and only organizing them into aconsistent argument manifests what he argues is the truth of theHegelian ontology. As such, Being, Essence, and Concept must beconceived in a relational way, and the boundaries of the Scienceof Logic must besurpassed towards the whole system where Hegelian logic achieves agenetic character and the Idea enlivens matter endlessly. At thispoint, he argues, Deleuze and Hegel seem to enjoy a sudden complicitywhere Hegel, according to Deleuze, would ?maximally approximate thereal movement of thought? and become a ?thinker of genius.?Nonetheless, it is also the point where Hegel will ?maximallybetray and distort? such real movement of thought. It is a delicateconceptual equilibrium at the razor?s edge, that may turn towardone side or the other. There is not after all, Deleuze has written,as ?another Hegel than the forces that take him.?p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; direction: ltr; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background: transparent }p.western { font-size: 12pt; so-language: en-US }p.cjk { font-size: 12pt; so-language: en-US }p.ctl { font-size: 12pt }a:visited { color: #954f72; text-decoration: underline }a:link { color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline }