KRITIKE VOLUME EIGHT NUMBER TWO (DECEMBER 2014) 119-138 © 2014 Raniel SM. Reyes http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_15/reyes_december2014.pdf ISSN 1908-7330 Article Deleuze contra Hegel: The Rupture of the Dialectics towards Non-Conceptual Difference Raniel SM. Reyes Abstract: This paper is a brief philosophical analysis of the relationship between G.W.F. Hegel and Gilles DeleuzeȂs philosophy. In the first part, I will present HegelȂs dialectical philosophy as the opusȂ point of departure including a truncated elucidation of the totalitarian aspect of his thinking. Since the Hegelian system is very comprehensive, it has also influenced other parts of Europe, especially France. Upon its arrival in the French soil, the systemȂs structurality was re-attuned in accordance with the materialities engendered by the political events besetting the French society during the 1960s. In order to explicate this hermeneutical fusion of horizons, I will utilize DeleuzeȂs philosophy of difference in order to undermine the Hegelian system. However, as DeleuzeȂs intellectual career progresses, his radicalism has mitigated. From an inclusive diagnosis of the said system, it has merely ruptured the metaphysical walls of the dialectic to become sensible to the pluralistic voices of difference. Amidst this so-called Deleuzian turn, I will delineate in the last part some additional albeit sophisticated convergence between their philosophies. Keywords: Deleuze, Hegel, dialectics, difference Revisiting the Hegelian Dialectics and the Specter of Totalitarianism hilosophy is not merely a search for the ultimate truths of reality and a reflection of our lived experiences. It is likewise a radicalization of the present order. Although the German Hegel and the French Deleuze are progenies of different historical periods and intellectual traditions, they have devised their respective critiques against the representationalist metaphysics of their times. However, despite this perceived convergence, there remains a complex divergence between them specifically, their means P