Deleuze in the Age of the Theological Turn

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Hent de Vries points out the ‘Turn to Religion’ in contemporary philosophy, selecting a typical case of Derrida’s essay, “Faith and Knowledge”. The religious turn or the theological turn is also revealed in Dominique Janicaud’s complaint against this turn exemplified by French philosophers such as Levinas, Michel Henry, Jean-Luc Marion, etc. Where does Gilles Deleuze stand in this age of the theological turn? As is well known, Deleuze manifests his atheist position in his attacks on religion in contrast with philosophy, art and science. Because of these messages, those who approach Deleuze in terms of theology express their apologies that this kind of approach may sound oxymoronic. Lindsay Powell-Jones starts the book she edited with F. LeRon Shults, Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Religion, with the remark that “As Mary Bryden writes in Deleuze and Religion, the topic might even appear to be a perverse one.” In this paper, Deleuze’s theoretical views will be revealed to be helpful to construct a positive relation between Deleuze and theology as is reflected in Deleuze’s remark on Spinoza: “Christ was incarnated once, in order to show, that one time, the possibility of the impossible. Thus Spinoza is the Christ of philosophers, and the greatest philosophers are hardly more than apostles who distance themselves from or draw near to this mystery.” Specifically this paper will deal with Deleuze’s notions of the plane of immanence, the concept of the body without organs, etc. to show how Deleuze’s philosophy reveals to be theological and his concept of becoming can be interpreted as becoming-divine, becoming-God, both of which mean to go beyond the human so that this becoming-divine comprises all the elements of the world in flux. This paper will also show how Deleuzian philosophy of immanence inspired by Spinoza reflects perichoresis of the dynamic relation among the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in immanence being ever being open to the eternal return of difference.

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