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WRAP THESIS Groves 1999
Hegel and Deleuze: Immanence and Otherness
A Warwick dissertation on Hegel and Deleuze, centered on immanence, otherness, and the status of philosophy as practice.
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Core idea
Groves asks whether Hegel and Deleuze can be brought into a serious argument over immanence and otherness without flattening either thinker. The thesis treats their clash as productive rather than merely oppositional.
It moves through Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Deleuze before returning to Hegel's critique of representational consciousness and absolute knowing. That itinerary makes otherness and immanence into problems of philosophical method as well as doctrine.
This matters for the Warwick section because it shows how central the Hegel/Deleuze problem was to the surrounding intellectual environment. The dissertation helps place later CCRU anti-foundational and anti-representational gestures inside a broader departmental debate.
How to read this text
Read the introduction and chapter map first, then jump to the Deleuze-as-practice material and the Hegel sections on representation. Those are the clearest pressure points.
Track how the thesis uses immanence and otherness as tests for philosophical practice. The comparison is strongest when it stops being a simple either/or.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 11
Hegel and Gilles Deleuze, considered as ways of 4 working through' this condition that provide resources for reconceiving the vocation of pbilosopby. ii) The Ambition of Philosophy: Immanence Our first object of enquiry has to be the Cartesian revolution itself, with the aim of penetrating a little deeper into its meaning as a philosophical event.
Definition · paragraph 22
Before we take this step, a word about the choice of Hegel and Deleuze as mediator-, between otirselves and tbe trauma of reason. The sIgnIficance of this choice can only ultimately be proven by the rest of the thesis. However. a few preliminary remarks about the general approacb I am taking in relation to these figures are in order.
Definition · paragraph 6
Deleuze. - AA naývse de Logique et existence par Jean Hyppolite AO LAnlj-Oedipe, Antl-Oedipus B Le bergsonisme, 'Bergsonism CD La conceplion de dýffijrence chez Bergson DialQgues Dialogues DR Diffirence el rjpehljon, ýDifference and Repetition ECC Essays Critical and Clinical IL L'immanence: une vie ... /Immanence: A Life KP La philosophie crilique de Kant, Kant's Cnti cal Philosophy LS La IQgjque A sens.
Definition · paragraph 22
Before we take this step, a word about the choice of Hegel and Deleuze as mediator-, between otirselves and tbe trauma of reason. The sIgnIficance of this choice can only ultimately be proven by the rest of the thesis.
History · paragraph 2
Hegel and Deleuze: Immanence and Otherness by Christopher Groves A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy University of Warwick, Department of Philosophy September 1999
Appears in sections
Warwick and Formation Primary section
How the CCRU emerged around Warwick, Sadie Plant, Nick Land, and an unstable collaborative scene.