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The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and Spiritual Ordeal(New Slant: Religion, Politics, Ontology)

The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and Spiritual Ordeal(New Slant: Religion, Politics, Ontology)


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In his writing, Gilles Deleuze drew on a vast array of source material, from philosophy and psychoanalysis to science and art. Yet scholars have largely neglected one of the intellectual currents underlying his work: Western esotericism, specifically the lineage of hermetic thought that extends from Late Antiquity into the Renaissance through the work of figures such as Iamblichus, Nicholas of Cusa, Pico della Mirandola, and Giordano Bruno. In this book, Joshua Ramey examines the extent to which Deleuze's ethics, metaphysics, and politics were informed by, and can only be fully understood through, this hermetic tradition.Identifying key hermetic moments in Deleuze's thought, including his theories of art, subjectivity, and immanence, Ramey argues that the philosopher's work represents a kind of contemporary hermeticism, a consistent experiment in unifying thought and affect, percept and concept, and mind and nature in order to engender new relations between knowledge, power, and desire. By uncovering and clarifying the hermetic strand in Deleuze's work, Ramey offers both a new interpretation of Deleuze, particularly his insistence that the development of thought demands a spiritual ordeal, and a framework for retrieving the pre-Kantian paradigm of philosophy as spiritual practice.

Table of Contents:
List of Abbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Secrets of Immanence 1 1. Philosophical Modernity and Experimental Imperative 11 2. Dark Precursors: The Hermetic Tradition 32 3. The Force of Symbols: Deleuze and the Esoteric Sign 82 4. The Overturning of Platonism 112 5. Becoming Cosmic 148 6. The Politics of Sorcery 171 7. The Future of Belief 200 Coda: Experimental Faith 219 Notes 225 Bibliography 275 Index 283

About the Author :
Joshua Ramey is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College.

Review :
"In this beautiful and daring book on Gilles Deleuze's esotericism, Joshua Ramey initiates us into a spiritual reading of Deleuzian ideas of immanence, founding, becoming, sign, and symbol. The defence of that great unsaid of reason, hermetic heterodoxy, is conveyed with elegance. Through exemplary scholarly study, Ramey seduces us with a dark side to thought. He inducts us into millennia of 'minor' traditions, while transforming them alongside Deleuze's most testing inventions. Rarely has scandalous instruction been so rewarding or rigorous." James Williams, University of Dundee "This inspired and rigorous engagement with Gilles Deleuze's concept of immanence raises fresh new problems and questions. Joshua Ramey reads Deleuze as a philosopher who both causes thought to happen and inquires how it happens; he philosophizes about philosophizing. As such, Ramey presents Deleuze as a philosophical demiurge, which is both exciting and provoking. This is an important book and a valuable contribution to the field." Ian Buchanan, editor of the journal Deleuze Studies


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  • ISBN-13: 9780822352297
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Sub Title: Philosophy and Spiritual Ordeal
  • ISBN-10: 082235229X
  • Publisher Date: 20 Aug 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Series Title: New Slant: Religion, Politics, Ontology
  • Weight: 454 gr


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