Immanent Transcendence
Reconfiguring Materialism in Continental Philosophy
1st Edition
Published on 23. August 2012
240 pages
978-1-4411-5086-8 (ISBN)
Description
Over the last twenty years materialist thinkers in the continental tradition have increasingly emphasized the category of immanence. Yet the turn to immanence has not meant the wholesale rejection of the concept of transcendence, but rather its reconfiguration in immanent or materialist terms: an immanent transcendence. Through an engagement with the work of Deleuze, Irigaray and Adorno, Patrice Haynes examines how the notion of immanent transcendence can help articulate a non-reductive materialism by which to rethink politics, ethics and theology in exciting new ways. However, she argues that contrary to what some might expect, immanent accounts of matter and transcendence are ultimately unable to do justice to material finitude. Indeed, Haynes concludes by suggesting that a theistic understanding of divine transcendence offers ways to affirm fully material
immanence, thus pointing towards the idea of a theological materialism.
immanence, thus pointing towards the idea of a theological materialism.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-5086-8 (9781441150868)
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Person
Patrice Haynes is a Lecturer in Philosophy and Ethics at Liverpool Hope University, UK. Her research interests are sited at the interface between philosophy and theology and she is a co-founder of The Association of Continental Philosophy of Religion.
Content
Acknowledgments \ Introduction: Rethinking Materialism and Transcendence \ 1. Deleuze and Spinoza: The Metaphysics of Pure Immanence \ 2. Becoming-Other \ 3. Irigaray's Sensible Transcendental \ 4. Adorno, Negative Dialectics and Materialism \ 5. Towards a Theological Materialism \ Notes \ Bibliography \ Index
