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What can a
theologian do with Deleuze? While using philosophy as a resource for theology
is nothing new, Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) presents a kind of limit-case for
such a theological appropriation of philosophy: a thoroughly "modern"
philosophy that would seem to be fundamentally hostile to Christian theology-a
philosophy of atheistic immanence with an essentially chaotic vision of the
world. Nonetheless, Deleuze's philosophy can generate many potential
intersections with theology opening onto a field of configurations: a fractious
middle between radical Deleuzian theologies that would think through theology
and reinterpret it from the perspective of some version of Deleuzian philosophy
and other theologies that would seek to learn from and respond to Deleuze from
the perspective of confessional theology-to take from the encounter with
Deleuze an opportunity to clarify and reform an orthodox Christian
self-understanding.
Published | Nov 22 2012 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 112 |
ISBN | 9780567363350 |
Imprint | T&T Clark |
Dimensions | 9 x 5 inches |
Series | Philosophy and Theology |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Deleuze and Theology is a timely arrival to the field of 'encounters' between its two protagonists, presenting an admirably clear exposition both of Deleuze and of his varied readers and a sensitive repositioning of the disparate critiques of Deleuze's much-debated spiritual content.
Simone Kotva, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Reviews in Religion and Theology
Christopher Ben Simpson's Deleuze and Theology makes one think, at first, that the unnamed general editor must be teasing us, for (as Simpson admits) Deleuze shows next to no interest in God or anything to do with theology, and it is hard to see how, outside the superannuated 'death of God' school, theologians can do much with Deleuze. Yet we pick up the volume with interest, much as though we were enticed into a conversation at a party in which a suave, well-educated person was trying to show that there really are compelling, if hidden, connections between Dick Cheney and socialism.
Kevin Hart, University of Virginia, H-France
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