The Bible After Deleuze

Affects, Assemblages, Bodies Without Organs
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-19-758125-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 581 g

The impact of Gilles Deleuze on critical thought in the opening decades of the twenty-first century rivals that of Jacques Derrida or Michel Foucault on critical thought in the closing decades of the twentieth. The "Deleuze and." industry is in overdrive in the humanities, the social sciences, and beyond, busily connecting Deleuzian philosophy to everything from literature to architecture, metaphysics to mathematics, ethics to physics, sexuality to technology, and ecology to theology. What of Deleuze and the Bible? What does the Bible become when it is plugged into the Deleuzian corpus? An immense affective assemblage, among other things. And what does biblical criticism become in the process? A practice of close reading that is other than interpretation and renounces the concept of representation.

Not just for those already familiar with the work of Deleuze, the book begins with an extended introduction to Deleuzian thought. It then proceeds to unexegetical explorations of five successive themes: Text (how to make yourself a Bible without Organs, and why); Body (why there are no bodies in the Bible, and how to read them anyway); Sex (a thousand tiny sexes, a trillion tiny Jesuses); Race (Jesus and the white faciality machine); and Politics (democracy, despots, pandemics, ancient prophets). Cumulatively, these explorations limn the fluid contours of a Bible after Deleuze.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moore, Stephen D

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sexualität & Gender in den Religionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgments

- Abbreviations

- INTRODELEUZE (who and why?)

- Deleuze in Theory

- The Box and the Machine

- The Deleuze Affect

- …and the Bible?

- 1. TEXT (the Bible without organs)

- Part I: At the Bible Study with Foucault and Deleuze

- What Is a Biblical Author?

- Knowledge, Power, Desire

- Part II: At the Bible Study with Deleuze and Guattari

- In Flux, in Assemblage

- The Book of Order-Words

- A Bible That Expresses Everything While Communicating Nothing

- How Do You Make Yourself a Bible without Organs?

- 2. BODY (why there are no bodies in the Bible, and how to read them anyway)

- Part I: The Eclipse of the Ancient Body

- Bodies Discoursed and Performed

- Bodies in a Noumenal Night

- Part II: The Ponderous Weight of the Incorporeal Synoptic Body

- Nonrepresenting the Synoptic Body

- What Is a Body When It Is Incorporeal?

- The Mundane Miracle of Reading (Everywhere Enacted Daily)

- 3. SEX (a thousand tiny sexes, a trillion tiny Jesuses)

- Part I: The Deleuzian Queer

- Desiring and Naming

- The Proletariat of Eros (Producing the Product Society Cannot Want)

- Part II: Queer Mark

- The Coming, and Becoming, of Christ

- The Crucified Body without Organs

- The Risen Body without Organs

- 4. RACE (Jesus and the white faciality machine)

- Part I: The Matter of Race

- White Light

- Dark Matter, I

- Jesus in Jackboots

- Dark Matter, II

- Is Race Structured Like a Language?

- Part II: Race and Face

- Assembling Race

- Facing Race

- Defacing Race

- 5. POLITICS (beastly boasts, apocalyptic affects)

- Unmethodological Prelude

- Tweets from the Bottomless Abyss

- Larval Fascisms, Insect Apocalypses

- Horrible Hope

- Post-Beast Postscript

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen D. Moore is Edmund S. Janes Professor of New Testament Studies Theological School, Drew University. He is author or editor, co-author or co-editor, of around thirty books, including the monographs Untold Tales from the Book of Revelation: Sex and Gender, Empire and Ecology (2014) and Gospel Jesuses and Other Nonhumans: Biblical Criticism Post-poststructuralism (2017), and the collection (co-edited with Karen Bray) Religion, Emotion, Sensation: Affect Theories and Theologies (2019).