Rustle in the Bush

Jean Wahl was a French philosopher, important to the academic community between World War I and his death in the 1970s. He was a thinker who saw beyond the confines of existentialist movements, strict Marxism, and European thought, with a commitment to the relationships between philosophies, a holistic approach to investigating t philosophy, and a renowned teacher. He taught Deleuze as if a mentor at times, and most likely gave him his appreciation for English and American thought as well as an emphasis on philosophy’s relationship to the history of philosophy.
Pretty sure that he was skeptical of Hegel on consciousness, and tried to remedy this along Kierkegaardian line and tried to secularize Kierkegaard thiough I know people like Wahl becuse he places an important emphasis on religion and mysticism.

Other famous teachers who influenced structuralism were the Hegelian interpreters Kojeve and Hyppolite.

Wahl’s Hegel believes a religious reconciliation is what Hegel’s phenomenology is grounded in, whereas for Kojeve the focus is on “politics and the struggle for recognition were the primary theme for Kojève” from this blog post

This blog also says Wahl gets this interpretation from a guy, Wilhelm Dilthey, who coined in name The Lebensphilosophie. This group is a start of vitalism, they rejected epistemology and are seen in Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Husserl, sometimes, maybe Bergson, but it’s mostly German. This tracts in terms of the direction from Wahl -> Deleuze

Apparently, Wahl really hammers in on this idea of man’s progression in “unhappy consciousness” with Christ as the literal symbol of this. The blog suggests that this works better for Wahl’s Kierkegaard.

This will become important, I think because we’ll see a shuffling of cups between Hegel and Kierkegaard in The Philosopher’s Way.