Personal profile
Research interests
The central questions driving my research are about how thought is able to correspond to, or be disclosive of, the world. The focus of my research to date has been the philosophies of Kant, Hegel and Deleuze and their different attempts to provide an account of the grounds of judgement. In pursuing this project, I see Deleuze as very much a part of the post-Kantian tradition, in attempting to replace Kant's philosophy of transcendental conditions with a fully genetic transcendental account. I also have a strong interest in the phenomenological movement, in particular, Merleau-Ponty's own later philosophy of difference and the work of Sartre.
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Gilles Deleuze
Somers-Hall, H., 2026, Cambridge Handbook of Continental Philosophy . Cambridge University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Reading A Thousand Plateaus: Adventures in Nomad Thought
Somers-Hall, H., May 2026, (Accepted/In press) Edinburgh University Press. 544 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Escaping the Dialectic: Kantian Echoes in Derrida and Merleau-Ponty
Somers-Hall, H., 1 Aug 2025, In: Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal. 46, 1, p. 151-177 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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God, the Face, and the Transcendental Ideal: Traces of Kant in the Faciality Machine
Somers-Hall, H., 21 Nov 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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“I Think Therefore I Was”: Sartre, Kant, and the Self
Somers-Hall, H., 28 Jan 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: British Journal for the History of Philosophy. 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access
Projects
- 1 Finished
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Judgement in Twentieth Century French Thought
Somers-Hall, H. (PI)
Arts & Humanities Research Council AHRC
1/10/14 → 31/07/16
Project: Research
Activities
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'Deleuze vs. Hegel’ podcast interview, Acid Horizon, 1.5 hours
Somers-Hall, H. (Speaker)
Oct 2025Activity: Talk, presentation or media contribution › Participation in a radio programme or podcast
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What is a society without a state? Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari on social organisation
Somers-Hall, H. (Speaker)
Oct 2025Activity: Talk, presentation or media contribution › Invited talk
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Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour podcast: Year Zero, Faciality
Somers-Hall, H. (Speaker)
Jul 2025Activity: Talk, presentation or media contribution › Participation in a radio programme or podcast
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The Transcendental Logic of Capitalism: Henry Somers-Hall on Deleuze, Guattari, and Kant
Somers-Hall, H. (Speaker)
Apr 2025Activity: Talk, presentation or media contribution › Participation in a radio programme or podcast
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Thought in Action: Conversations about Cinema: Mickey 1
Somers-Hall, H. (Organiser)
Mar 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Workshop, seminar, course or webinar.