Iconoclastic theology : Gilles Deleuze and the secretion of atheism / [electronic resource]
Shults, F. LeRon,author.
F. LeRon Shults explores Deleuze's fascination with theological themes and shows how his entire corpus can be understood as a creative atheist machine that liberates thinking, acting and feeling. Shults also demonstrates how the flow of a productive atheism can be increased by bringing Deleuzian concepts into dialogue with insights derived from the bio-cultural sciences of religion.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
1. Hammering theology: The science of non-existing entities -- Anti-Oedipus, Anti-Christ -- Anthropomorphic promiscuity and sociographic prudery -- Sacerdotal and Iconoclastic trajectories -- The secrets of theism -- 2. Breaking theological icons: The inversion of Platonism -- Christ as the image of God -- Anthropomorphic prudery and sociographic promiscuity -- Kant and the genitality of experience -- Spinoza and the vertigo of immanence -- Nietzsche and the rising of the Simulacra -- Overturning religious figures -- 3. Loosening theological chains: The dogmatic image of thought -- Christ as the logos of God -- The first shackle: Analogy of judgment -- The second shackle: Identity in the concept -- The third shackle: Opposition of predicates -- The fourth shackle: resemblance in perception -- The liberation of thinking -- 4. Releasing theological events: Paradox and becoming -- Christ as the incarnation of God -- The aleatory point -- The line of the Aion -- The metaphysical surface -- Sexuality and pious intentions -- The liberation of acting -- 5. Assembling theological machines: Desiring-machines -- Christ as the judgment of God -- Theology and the territorial machine -- Theology and the despotic machine -- Theology and the capitalist machine -- Theology and the war machine -- The liberation of feeling -- 6. Secreting atheism: The production of atheism -- The gospel according to Deleuze -- The forces of theology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
F. LeRon Shults explores Deleuze's fascination with theological themes and shows how his entire corpus can be understood as a creative atheist machine that liberates thinking, acting and feeling. Shults also demonstrates how the flow of a productive atheism can be increased by bringing Deleuzian concepts into dialogue with insights derived from the bio-cultural sciences of religion.
Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.
Christianity and atheism.
Religion