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.
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ISBN
9798216231820
Publisert
2025
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury USA
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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