Spinoza contre les Maos : une nouvelle étape dans l’anti-hégélianisme de Gilles Deleuze

Abstract

This article aims to show that Deleuze’s Spinozism and anti-Hegelianism, during the 1970s, needs to be understood in the light of his criticism of the French Maoïsts (Benny Lévy, André Glucksmann, Alain Badiou…). The fact that Deleuze’s rejection of Hegel is not pursued with Nietzsche, but with Spinoza, means thus that there is a new political issue in his philosophy. In this context, the debate between Spinoza and Hegel refers to an opposition between two figures of revolutionaries: Masaniello and Mao, the liberation of desire or the repressive organization of revolution.