Organizational Research

3From Nietzsche to Deleuze Multiplicities Contributions to 4th Wave Grounded Theory

This chapter is about the stream that runs from Plato & Hegel, via Nietzsche to Deleuze multiplicities. It attempts to reverse what is negative in Plato and Hegel dialectics. We will start with Deleuze’s rejection of dialectic then see what all the fuss is about.

Deleuze (1991) adds ‘difference and repetition,’ spiraling as a move we can utilize in informing our organizational systems thinking. It’s a spiraling move away from Hegel/Marx/Follett historical dialectic to a Nietzschean reversal of Platonic dialectic into the Eternal Return (will to power) that incorporates Freudian & Lacanian psychoanalysis. Deleuze (1994: 6), says, “What I most detested was Hegelianism ...