[SydPhil] UNSW Philosophy Seminar, Tuesday September 17: The Necessity and Contingency of Universal History: Deleuze and Guattari contra Hegel

[Joanne Faulkner]

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School of Humanities & Languages Seminar  - Philosophy Seminar


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The School of Humanities & Languages are proud to present a seminar in the field of Philosophy presented by Dr. Craig Lundy, University of Wollongong

"The Necessity and Contingency of Universal History: Deleuze and Guattari contra Hegel"
This paper will explore the nature of universal history in the work of Deleuze and Guattari vis-à-vis its most pertinent counterpoint: Hegel’s philosophy of history. In their final joint work, Deleuze and Guattari heavily criticise Hegel’s treatment of history, reiterating an ambivalence that they had long held towards both history and Hegel. As Deleuze and Guattari claim, “unforeseeable creativity”, in Hegel, is “poorly understood”, for Hegel historicises reality, reducing it to “an analytic and necessary principle” that teleologically unfolds in history – the unravelling of history itself, guided by the light of Geist (Deleuze and Guattari, What Is Philosophy, pp. 94-5). Given this distaste for historical formulations that overcode and subject reality to a unitary and totalising force, it is somewhat surprising that Deleuze and Guattari simultaneously employ a form of universal history in their own work. This universal history, however, differs in several respects: principally, the mechanism of its universalisation operates in an entirely different manner to Hegel; and following, Deleuze and Guattari’s universal history is marked above all by contingency as opposed to necessity. In this paper I will show precisely how. I will also go on to demonstrate how Deleuze and Guattari’s universal history offers the promise of an historical ontology commensurate with the processes of creativity and becoming, provided that appropriate steps are taken to reaffirm the radical contingency at its heart.


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Date: 17 September, 2013
Time: 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Location: Morven Brown 310 Morven Brown Building, UNSW Kensington
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