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Immanent Transcendence: Reconfiguring Materialism in Continental Philosophy

Immanent Transcendence: Reconfiguring Materialism in Continental Philosophy

Haynes, Patrice

Hardcover

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1441121528
ISBN13: 9781441121523
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Oct 25 2012
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Over the last twenty years materialist thinkers in the continental tradition have increasingly emphasized the category of immanence. Yet the turn to immanence has not meant the wholesale rejection of the concept of transcendence, but rather its reconfiguration in immanent or materialist terms: an immanent transcendence. Through an engagement with the work of Deleuze, Irigaray and Adorno, Patrice Haynes examines how the notion of immanent transcendence can help articulate a non-reductive materialism by which to rethink politics, ethics and theology in exciting new ways. However, she argues that contrary to what some might expect, immanent accounts of matter and transcendence are ultimately unable to do justice to material finitude. Indeed, Haynes concludes by suggesting that a theistic understanding of divine transcendence offers ways to affirm fully material

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