The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and Spiritual Ordeal

In his writing, Gilles Deleuze drew on a vast array of source material, from philosophy and psychoanalysis...
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Author: Joshua Ramey
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The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and Spiritual Ordeal by Ramey, Joshua

The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and Spiritual Ordeal

Dhs. 253.18

The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and Spiritual Ordeal

Dhs. 253.18
Author: Joshua Ramey
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.



Author: Joshua Ramey
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 08/20/2012
Pages: 291
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780822352297


Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2013

About the Author

Joshua Ramey is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College.


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