Deleuze, Guattari and the Machine in Early Christianity

Schizoanalysis, Affect and Multiplicity

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvBradley H. McLean

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Expanding the impact of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s philosophy to the disciplines of Christian Origins and Christian theology, this original study makes the case for understanding early Christianity through such Deleuzioguattarian concepts as the ‘rhizome’, the ‘machine’, the ‘body without organs’ and the ‘multiplicity’, using the theoretical tool of schizoanalysis to do so.The reconstruction of the historical emergence of early Christianity, Bradley H. McLean argues, has been constrained by traditional assumptions about its historical and transcendental origins. These assumptions are ill-suited to theorizing the genesis, change and transformation of early Christianity in the first three centuries of the Common Era. To capture the dynamism of early Christianity, McLean applies Guattari’s concept of the ‘machine’, to the analysis of early Christianity. Arguing that machines are both an unnoticed dimension of early Christianity, and a major analytical tool for the discipline, McLean highlights the potential of the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari to challenge and reconfigure not just our knowledge of early Christianity, but all aspects of Hellenistic Judaism, and the Greco-Roman world, as well as our understanding of Jesus of Nazareth and the Jesus movement.By subverting the concept of a single transcendental or historical origin of Christianity, this book facilitates new forms of dialogue and cooperation between Christians and co-religionists.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-02-22
Mått154 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt400 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor262
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350233881

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List of AbbreviationsIntroduction 1. The Rise of the Christ Machines 2. Desiring Production and Early Christianities3. The Rhizome: Multiplicities and the Virtual Dimension of Christ Groups 4. The Autoproduction of a Body of Christ without Organs 5. Territorializations and Deterritorializations: On Becoming Outlandish 6. Deterritorialization in the Gospels: A Typology of Lines 7. The Stratification of Christ Groups in the Despotic Socius8. Christ Groups as Social Assemblages and Abstract Machines9. The God of Religion and the Schizo God10. The Myth of Eve: Falling Into, and Out of, Delusion 11. On Several Regimes of Signs and Several Christs 12. The Despotic Christ and the Signifying Despotic Regime of Signs 13. The Passional Christ and the Passional Subjective Regime of Signs14. What Can Christ’s Body Do? 15. Molecular Becomings of Christ: Becoming-woman16. Christ Becoming-animal: An Affair of Sorcery17. Christ’s Becomings-imperceptible: Martyrological, Magical, and Cosmic18. The Nomad Jesus and the Galilean War Machine ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

McLean’s book has something for everyone. Scholars of Early Christianity will find here an array of conceptual tools that will no doubt open up new insights into the origins of the “Christ machines.” Scholars of Deleuze and Guattari will find excellent examples of the coupling of their literary machine to the texts and practices of “Christ groups” in the first three centuries BCE. And everyone else will find an introduction to both fields that is accessible and fun to read.