Description:
Deleuze's philosophy of immanence, with its vigorous rejection of every appeal to the beyond, is often presumed to be indifferent to the concerns of religion. Daniel Barber shows that this is not the case. Addressing the intersection between Deleuze's thought and the notion of religion, he proposes an alliance between immanence and the act of naming God. In doing so, he gives us a way out of the paralysing debate between religion and the secular. What matters is not to take one side or the other, but to create the new in this world.
Brief description: Daniel Colucciello Barber is the author of On Diaspora: Christianity, Religion, and Secularity (Cascade, 2011). He is currently a Fellow at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry.
Review Quotes: Daniel Colucciello Barber's book is an incisive return to core concepts in Deleuze's thought in order to interrogate and re-express them differently.--Joshua Ramey, Grinnell College "Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"