The impact of Gilles Deleuze on critical thought in the opening
decades of the twenty-first century rivals that of Jacques Derrida or
Michel Foucault on critical thought in the closing decades of the
twentieth. The "Deleuze and..." industry is in overdrive in the
humanities, the social sciences, and beyond, busily connecting
Deleuzian philosophy to everything from literature to architecture,
metaphysics to mathematics, ethics to physics, sexuality to
technology, and ecology to theology. What of Deleuze and the Bible?
What does the Bible become when it is plugged into the Deleuzian
corpus? An immense affective assemblage, among other things. And what
does biblical criticism become in the process? A practice of close
reading that is other than interpretation and renounces the concept of
representation.
Not just for those already familiar with the work of Deleuze, the book
begins with an extended introduction to Deleuzian thought. It then
proceeds to unexegetical explorations of five successive themes:
_Text_ (how to make yourself a Bible without Organs, and why); _Body_
(why there are no bodies in the Bible, and how to read them anyway);
_Sex_ (a thousand tiny sexes, a trillion tiny Jesuses); _Race_ (Jesus
and the white faciality machine); and _Politics_ (democracy, despots,
pandemics, ancient prophets). Cumulatively, these explorations limn
the fluid contours of a Bible after Deleuze.
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Affects, Assemblages, Bodies Without Organs
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780197581278
Publisert
2022
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic US
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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