Immanent transcendence : reconfiguring materialism in continental philosophy

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    • Haynes, Patrice

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Immanent transcendence : reconfiguring materialism in continental philosophy

Patrice Haynes

(Bloomsbury studies in continental philosophy)

Bloomsbury, 2012

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Bibliography: p. [191]-199

Includes index

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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.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Part I
  • 1. Deleuze and Spinoza: The Metaphysics of Pure Immanence
  • 2. Becoming-Other
  • Part II
  • 3. Irigaray's Sensible Transcendental
  • 4. Adorno, Negative Dialectics and Materialism
  • Part III
  • 5. Toward a Theological Materialism
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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