Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy [Paperback]

Michael Hardt (Author)

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Publication Date: February 5, 1993

Gilles Deleuze, a major figure in the intellectual history of the late-20th century, inaugurated the radical non-Hegelianism that has marked French intellectual life during the past three decades. Many poststructuralist and postmodernist practices can be traced to Deleuze's 1962 resurrection of Nietzsche against Hegel. Hardt shows how Deleuze's early analysis of Bergson's critique of ontology and determination led him to a conception of a positive movement of differentiation and becoming, which in turn led him to the field of forces, sense, value, and the thematic of power and affirmation in Nietzsche. The theory of power in Nietzsche provided the link for Deleuze to an ethics of active expression in Spinoza: Deleuze's discovery and analysis of Spinoza's cultivation of joy and practice at the center of ontology finally resulted in a complete break from the Hegelian paradigm that had reigned over continental philosophy and history. Michael Hardt is the translator of Antonio Negri's "The Savage Anomaly: the Power of Spinoza's Metaphysics and Politics" (Minnesota, 1990), Giorgio Agamben's "The Coming Community" (Minnesota, 1993), and co-author (with Antonio Negri) of "Labor of Dionysus" (Minnesota).

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press; 1 edition (February 5, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0816621616
• ISBN-13: 978-0816621613
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Paradox of Enemies, September 17, 2000

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This review is from: Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy (Paperback)

Hardt's book on Deleuze can be applauded for two reasons: its careful reading of Deleuze's texts and its attempt to situate them critically among continental philosophy. Hardt is a clear writer, and his insights are often quite powerful and suggestive. However, like most writer on Deleuze his "deleuzian" reading seeks too much to reconfigure the texts (Bergson, Nietzsche,and Spinoza). Beyond Hardt's text stands the imposing shadow of Hegel -- perhaps my only hesitation with its analysis. There is a desire to find unity in difference however radical this difference might be. The key problem of scholarship on Deleuze seem to be precisely how to read him -- is the project Deleuze has laid out to reread his texts as he has reread others? How is one to be Deluezian? This said, Hardt's work is exceptional in most areas.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Hardt's Deleuze shows us how one can break whith Hegel, December 28, 1998

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This review is from: Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy (Paperback)

In Gilles Deleuze, Michael Hardt analyzes the development of Deleuze's thought focussing on his works in the history of philosophy. From this historical perspective, Hardt renders possible to see the very intensive forcing bettwen Hegel's dialectics and this new afirmative thougth. The original reference to Scholastic's philosophy, for example, open the horizont to a new comprenhension of the arguments used by Deleuze, no so often explained. It would be very interesting to read this book in pararel whith Vicent Descombes' La même et l'autre, a totaly oposite interpretation of Deleuze, where the battle whith Hegel is mised from the very begining.