Deleuze, Guattari and the Machine in Early Christianity
Schizoanalysis, Affect and Multiplicity
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Deleuze, Guattari and the Machine in Early Christianity
Schizoanalysis, Affect and Multiplicity
About this book
Expanding the impact of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's philosophy to the disciplines of Christian Origins and Christian theology, this original study makes the case for understanding early Christianity through such Deleuzioguattarian concepts as the 'rhizome', the 'machine', the 'body without organs' and the 'multiplicity', using the theoretical tool of schizoanalysis to do so. The reconstruction of the historical emergence of early Christianity, Bradley H. McLean argues, has been constrained by traditional assumptions about its historical and transcendental origins. These assumptions are ill-suited to theorizing the genesis, change and transformation of early Christianity in the first three centuries of the Common Era. To capture the dynamism of early Christianity, McLean applies Guattari's concept of the 'machine', to the analysis of early Christianity. Arguing that machines are both an unnoticed dimension of early Christianity, and a major analytical tool for the discipline, McLean highlights the potential of the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari to challenge and reconfigure not just our knowledge of early Christianity, but all aspects of Hellenistic Judaism, and the Greco-Roman world, as well as our understanding of Jesus of Nazareth and the Jesus movement. By subverting the concept of a single transcendental or historical origin of Christianity, this book facilitates new forms of dialogue and cooperation between Christians and co-religionists.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The rise of the Christ machines
- 2 Desiring production and early Christianities
- 3 The rhizome: Multiplicities and the virtual dimension of Christ groups
- 4 The autoproduction of a body of Christ without organs
- 5 Territorializations and deterritorializations: On becoming outlandish
- 6 Deterritorialization in the Gospels: A typology of lines
- 7 The stratification of Christ groups in the Roman despotic socius
- 8 Christ groups as social assemblages and abstract machines: Discourse and power
- 9 The God of religion and the schizo God
- 10 The myth of Eve: Falling into, and out of, delusion
- 11 On several regimes of signs and several Christs
- 12 The despotic Christ and the signifying despotic regime of signs
- 13 The passional Christ and the passional subjective regime of signs
- 14 What can Christ’s body do?
- 15 Molecular becomings of Christ: Becoming-woman
- 16 Christ becoming-animal: An affair of sorcery
- 17 Christ’s becomings-imperceptible: Martyrological, magical and cosmic
- 18 The nomad Jesus and the Galilean war machine
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index