Immanent Transcendence: Reconfiguring Materialism in Continental Philosophy Contributor(s): Haynes, Patrice (Author) |
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ISBN: 1472524047 ISBN-13: 9781472524041 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: February 2014 Click for more in this series: Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy |
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BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Metaphysics |
Dewey: 111 |
Series: Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy |
Physical Information: 0.47" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (0.70 lbs) 224 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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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