Gilles Deleuze (Great Thinkers)
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Deleuze has profoundly influenced how our society understands everything from knowledge and truth to sexuality and identity. Christopher Watkin, a scholar of French literature and philosophy, introduces Deleuze’s thought and brings his writing into sustained conversation with prominent biblical themes and motifs from Reformed theology. As you engage with Deleuze’s thought, you will discover a model of cultural engagement that you can use to understand any thinker or school.
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- Introduces Deleuze’s thought
- Brings his writing into sustained conversation with prominent biblical themes and motifs from Reformed theology
- Provides a model of cultural engagement that can be used to understand any thinker or school
Top Highlights
“The second intellectual current from which Deleuze’s thought distances itself is phenomenology, with its principle that all knowledge begins with phenomena, with how things appear to me, regardless of what those things may or not be in themselves.” (Page xxviii)
“‘more inward than my most inward part and higher than the highest element within me.’5 Is God immanent? More so than I am to myself.” (Page 92)
“Yet it does not follow from this radical, nonhierarchical transcendence that God is far away, inhabiting another world that sucks the meaning out of this one. On the contrary, he is most radically immanent to his creation. He is the God in whom ‘we live and move and have our being’ (Acts 17:28) and who ‘is actually not far from each one of us’ (v. 27).” (Page 92)
“What is objectionable, theologically speaking, is the unproblematic reading across from Deleuze’s very particular, ontological account of difference to Trinitarian equal ultimacy, with which it has precious little to do. To say anything else would be to fail to respect the distinctiveness of Deleuze, or of the Bible, or of both.” (Page 89)
“A minoritarian group has no fixed identity but is a process of becoming. Deleuze and Guattari explore a series of such becomings in A Thousand Plateaus, including becoming-woman, becoming-animal, becoming-imperceptible, and becoming-minor.” (Page 73)