Deleuze and Religion

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).

• 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