Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy

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219 Notes Introduction The text that is the basis for this introduction was written in 1999. It is the oldest part of Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy. All other chapters, the preface, the conclusion, the appendices were written at Penn State University in 2010. However, the book is based on a course I taught at the University of Memphis called “Recent Continental Philosophy.” (I taught the same course one time at Penn State University in the fall of 2009 under the title “Twentieth-Century Philosophy.”) Teaching that course (several times at the University of Memphis, starting in 1999) forced me to think about what continental philosophy might mean; it led to the idea of writing this book. 1. Gilles Deleuze, Foucault (Paris: Minuit, 1986), p. 124, English translation by Seán Hand as Foucault (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988), p. 116. See also Gilles Deleuze, Différence et répétition (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1968), p. 188n1, English translation by Paul Patton as Difference and Repetition (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), p. 144; this note is left untranslated in the English translation. Deleuze’s book on Foucault has played an enormous role in the writing of Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy. 2. These four formulas do not correspond to the four features presented in the preface. 3. Deleuze, Différence et répétition, p. 258; Difference and Repetition, p. 199. 4. Deleuze, Différence et répétition, p. 196; Difference and Repetition, p. 151. 5. Deleuze, Différence et répétition, p. 173; Difference and Repetition, p. 132. 6. Deleuze, Différence et répétition, p. 205; Difference and Repetition, p. 158. 7. Michel Foucault, Surveiller et punir (Paris: Gallimard, 1975), English translation by Alan Sheridan as Discipline and Punish (New York: Vintage, 1995). See also Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Capitalisme et schizophrénie 2. Mille plateaux (Paris: Minuit, 1980), p. 244, English translation by Brian Massumi as A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987), p. 224. 220 · Notes to pages 4–13 8. See chapter 7 below for the introduction of violence into the self-relation. 9. Jean Hyppolite, Logique et existence (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1952), p. 230, English translation by Leonard Lawlor and Amit Sen as Logic and Existence (Albany: The State University of New York Press, 1997), p. 176. 10. Andrew Cutrofello has noted not only the importance of Nietzsche but also of Heidegger for the development of twentieth-century continental philosophy. His overall orientation, however, comes from appropriations of Kant. Cutrofello’s Continental Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction (London: Routledge, 2005) is by far the best introduction to continental philosophy written to date. Lee Braver has also made an admirable presentation of continental philosophy in his A Thing of this World: A History of Continental Anti-Realism (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2007). 11. Martin Heidegger, Sein und Zeit (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1979 [1927]), p. 344, English translation by Joan Stambaugh, revised and with a foreword by Dennis J. Schmidt as Being and Time (Albany: The State University of New York Press, 2010), p. 328. 12. See Leonard Lawlor, “The Beginnings of Thought: The Fundamental Experience in Derrida and Deleuze,” in Thinking Through French Philosophy: The Being of the Question (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003), pp. 123–41. 13. Eugen Fink, “Die Phänomenologische Philosophie E. Husserl in der Gegenw ärtigen Kritik,” originally published in Kantstudien, Band, XXXVIII, 3/4 (Berlin, 1933); collected in Eugen Fink, Studien zur Phänomenologie (Den Haag: Nijhoff, 1966), p. 105n1, English translation as “The Phenomenological Philosophy of Edmund Husserl and Contemporary Criticism,” in The Phenomenology of Husserl, ed. R. O. Elveton (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1970), p. 99n11. 14. For more on Husserl and phenomenology, see chapter 3. 15. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Qu’est-ce que la philosophie (Paris: Minuit, 1991), p. 103, English translation by Hugh Tomlinson and Graham Burchell as What Is Philosophy (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), p. 108. 16. G. W. F. Hegel, Phänomenologie des Geistes (Hamburg: Meiner, 1952), p. 32, English translation by A. V. Miller as Phenomenology of Spirit (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979), p. 21. 17. Hegel, Phänomenologie des Geistes, pp. 24–26; Phenomenology of Spirit, pp. 14–15. 18. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, “Philosophie et non-philosophie depuis Hegel,” in Notes de cours 1958–1959 et 1960–1961 (Paris: Gallimard, 1996), p. 278, English translation by Hugh J. Silverman as “Philosophy and...