Mary Bryden

Deleuze and Religion

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Produktbeschreibung

Gilles Deleuze's philosophy is commonly characterised as materialist and atheistic. It exhibits a recurrent commitment to unleashing philosophy from its historical affiliations with theology so as to release it into a zone of dynamism and becoming. Thus some may consider it a perverse or retrograde act to bring Deleuze's writing into proximity with the discourse of religion. However, Deleuze's philosophical thinking can be seen to engage with notions of Godhead, belief, spirituality, cosmology and biblical research, as well as demonstrating the influence of theist writers and philosophers. Despite the considerable and ever-expanding body of Deleuzian scholarship, no single volume has yet explored the religious dimensions and implications of Deleuze's writing. Now, Mary Bryden has assembled a team of international scholars to do just that. Their essays illustrate the ways in which Deleuzian thought is antithetical to religious debate, as well as the ways in which it contributes to those debates. In this study, Deleuze's writing is set in the context of a wide spectrum of textual material, including patristics, mysticism, dogmatic theology, hermeneutics, literature and modern critical theory. This volume will be invaluable for researchers, teachers and students of theology, philosophy, critical theory, cultural studies and literary criticism, as well as to students of French who read Deleuze's work in its original language. The collection offers a stimulating selection of cross-disciplinary approaches towards the varied links between Deleuzian thought and religion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780415240291
• ISBN-10: 0415240298
• Artikelnr.: 21423107

Autorenporträt

Mary Bryden is a senior lecturer in the Department of French at the University of Reading. Her previous publications include Samuel Beckett and the Idea of God (Macmillan 1998) and Samuel Beckett and Music (Oxford University Press, 1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I Judgement and betrayal 1 The betrayal of God 2 The
organism as the judgement of God: Aristotle, Kant and Deleuze on nature
(that is, on biology, theology and politics) 3 Embodied anti-theology: the
body without organs and the judgement of God PART II Spirituality of the
Dead: Deleuze and the positivity of the second light 6 Thinking difference:
a comparative study of Gilles Deleuze, Plotinus and Meister Eckhart 7
Bodily organs and organisation PART III Literature and religion 8
Nietzsche's arrow: Deleuze on D. H. Lawrence's Apocalypse 9 The future of
an illusion: Melville's deconstruction of Deleuze's a/theology 10 Knowing
one's enemy: Deleuze, Artaud, and the problem Of judgement PART IV Beyond
theology 11 Pure reserve: Deleuze, philosophy, and immanence 12 Why is
philosophy so compromised with God? 13 The doctrine of univocity: Deleuze's
ontology of immanence 14 Deleuze's impersonal, hylozoic cosmology: the
expulsion of theology