The divine manifold
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The divine manifold
(Contemporary Whitehead studies)
Lexington Books, c2014
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 539-563) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Divine Manifold is a postmodern enquiry in intersecting themes of the concept and reality of multiplicity in a chaosmos that does not refuse a dimension of theopoetics, but rather defines it in terms of divine polyphilia, the love of multiplicity. In an intricate play on Dante's Divine Comedy, this book engages questions of religion and philosophy through the aporetic dynamics of love and power, locating its discussions in the midst of, and in between the spheres of a genuine philosophy of multiplicity. This philosophy originates from the poststructuralist approach of Gilles Deleuze and the process philosophical inspirations of Alfred N. Whitehead. As their chaosmos invites questions of ultimate reality, religious pluralism and multireligious engagement, a theopoetics of love will find paradoxical dissociations and harmonizations with postmodern sensitivities of language, power, knowledge and embodiment. At the intersection of poststructuralism's and process theology's insights in the liberating necessity of multiplicity for a postmodern cosmology, the book realizes its central claim. If there is a divine dimension of the chaosmos, it will not be found in any identification with mundane forces or supernatural powers, but on the contrary in the absolute difference of polyphilic love from creativity. Yet, the concurrent indifference of love and power-its mystical undecidability in terms of any conceptualization-will lead into existential questions of the insistence on multiplicity in a world of infinite becoming as inescapable background for its importance and creativeness, formulating an ecological and ethical impulse for a mystagogy of becoming intermezzo.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Meditations: On the Love of Multiplicity
Pre/Face: Conceiving the Divine Manifold
Part I: Theopoetics: On Divine Suspension
1. Poetic Transgression-What Happened to Process Theology?
2. De/Construction-After the One, the Two, and the Many
3. Subtractive Affirmation-A Post-Constructive Approach to Divine Poiesis
4. Skillful Suspension-Immersed in the Divine Comedy
5. Polypoetics-Mapping, Tracing, Symbolizing Theoplicity
Intermezzo I: Polypoetic Nomoi
Part II: Polyphilia: On Divine Passage
6 In/finite Becoming-Sounding the Pro/found
7. Chaosmetics-The Universe on Probation
8. Pure Multiplicities-Divine Game with Infants
9. Khoric Bodies-The Flesh of Multiplicity
10. The Wound of Things-A Mystagogy of Passage
Intermezzo II: Polyphilic Pluralism
Part III: Theoplicity: On Divine Folding
11. Dispossessing God-The Antinomy of Love and Power
12. Theopoetic In/Difference-A Theology of the Fold
13. Transpantheism-A/voiding Divine Identity
14. Ecotheosis-Insisting in Chaosmic Pleroma
15. Divine Diffusion-The Event of the Impossible
Epilogues: On Poly-Harmonics (Manifolds, Nothing but Manifolds)
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