Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 08:20:26 -0500 (CDT)
From: CND7750-AT-UTARLG.UTA.EDU
Subject: Re: Susan Says Here It Is, There It Isn't


Could you explain to me what you think hegelian negativity means?
I would be more comfortable in having your definition first; for
i get the feeling that if i say soemthing about Hegelian negativity
and Deleuzo-Nietzschean positvity you will then tell me that 
negativity is exactly the same thing as Deleuzian positivity: only
the terms are different.

Is that all there is to Univocity?i] Here again i want to make sure
tht i have not slighted your insights before moving on the the
major theme involving the concept, namely expression{. Undoubtedly
you were dealing with expression with your entire treatment of
the concept. I would simply like to throw in some stuff.

I doubt seriously that Hegel understood thought in terms of the
eliminative materialism Susan has been espousing. Deleuze
certainly does not. He, as you know, rejects 'physicalism.'
Hegel himself, as i have been taught Hegel at least, was of
the firm opion tht Geist affects and directs 'dead matter' (giving
here a broad overview), not unlike the traditional conception
of 'will' affecting matter. (I will openly admit my ignorance
concerning Hegel's thoughts on 'will' itself.) Nietzsche categorically
rejects the notion of will acting on matter (Beyond Good and Evil,
# 36). Will acts only on will, i.e., force acts on, exists in
a unilateral relationship with, force. There is nothing outside
force/matter that causes it to move. Wuld you not agree that Hegel
understood Geist as the agent that directs matter toward its
purposeful end?

susie

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