Description: Restoring the reputation of a twentieth-century philosopher and his relevance to twenty-first-century political thought.
Brief description: Clayton Crockett (PhD, Religion, Syracuse) is Professor and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author of Deleuze Beyond Badiou: Ontology, Multiplicity, and Event (Columbia, 2013 and Radical Political Theology: Religion and Politics After Liberalism (Columbia, 2011); the coauthor (with Ward Blanton, Noelle Vahanian, and Jefffrey Robbins) of An Insurrectionist Manifesto: Gospels for a Radical Politics (Columbia, 2016); the editor of Secular Theology: American Radical Theological Thought (Routledge, 2001) and Religion and Violence in a Secular World: Toward a New Political Thdeology (Virginia, 2006); and the coeditor (with Creston Davis and Slavoj Zizek) if Hdegel and the Infinite: Religion, Politics, and Dialectic (Columbia, 2011). He is also a coeditor of the series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture (Columbia).
Review Quotes: This book offers insightful interpretations of several of Deleuze's major works.-- "Choice"