The Logic of Expression: Quality, Quantity and Intensity in Spinoza, Hegel and Deleuze

Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy

by Simon Duffy

Engaging with the challenging and controversial reading of "Spinoza" presented by Gilles Deleuze in "Expressionism in Philosophy" (1968), this book focuses on Deleuze's redeployment of Spinozist concepts within the context of his own philosophical project of constructing a philosophy of difference as an alternative to the Hegelian dialectical philosophy. Duffy demonstrates that a thorough understanding of Deleuze's Spinozism is necessary in order to fully engage with Deleuze's philosophy of difference.

Genres: Philosophy

296 pages, Hardcover

Published October 18, 2006

Reviews

[Amity Aharoni]

One of the more serious assessments of the tension between Hegel and Deleuze and the tension between the Hegelian dialectical logic and the Deleuzian different/cial logic. Furthermore, one of the only serious full accounts of Deleuze's metaphysical project. Highly recommended.

[Anthony Buckley]

I was pondering whether Hegel's dialectic, which has been preoccupying me for the last few weeks, might not be related to Newton's differential calculus. (Newton was The big name in the eighteenth century, so it seemed likely.) So I googled "dialectic" and "calculus" and came up with this.