Deleuze and the Naming of God

Daniel Colucciello Barber is the author of On Diaspora: Christianity, Religion, and Secularity (Cascade, 2011). He is currently a Fellow at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; A Proclamation; Three Trajectories for Deleuze’s Immanence; Deleuze and Philosophy of Religion; Surveying the Argument; 1. Beginning With Difference: Heidegger, Derrida, and the Time of Thought; Heidegger’s Difference: A ‘More Originary Way’?; Don’t Think Ahead of Time: From Heidegger to Derrida; What Comes After Différance?; 2. Deleuze: The Difference Immanence Makes; The Architecture of Immanence; Re-expression and the Unconditioned Power of Immanence; Giving Intensity to the Mode of Existence; Virtually New; Is Time a Crystal?; Dividing Time; The Autonomy of the Product; The Ethics of Re-expression and the Naming of God; 3. Stuck in the Middle: Milbank, Hart, the Time of Chronos; ‘The Dog is in the Garden’: God’s Being and the Meaning of ‘Is’; Violent Origins; The Interstice and the Accord; Ethics of the Crack; The ‘Suspended Middle’; Back to the Present; 4. Yoder: From the Particular to the Divine; Against the Powers; ‘A Host of Other Free Agents’: Exceeding the Frame; Secular Creativity; Equality With God is Not Something to be Emanated; Time for Re-writing; 5. Adorno: A Metaphilosophy of Immanence; The Mediation of Nonidentity; Conceiving the More; ‘We lack creation’: A Deleuzian Metaphilosophy?; Shame, Suffering, and Metaphilosophy; Senseless Animals; 6. Icons of Immanence: Believe the Now-Here, Fabulate the No-Where; Bleakness and Belief; Intolerability; The Creation of Real Beings; Communication; Utopia; The Fabulation of Icons; Conclusion: Toward the Future.

Daniel Colucciello Barber's book is an incisive return to core concepts in Deleuze's thought in order to interrogate and re-express them differently.