The Divine Manifold

Roland Faber

doi:10.5771/9780739191408

Summary

The Divine Manifold is a postmodern enquiry in intersecting themes of the concept and reality of multiplicity in a chaosmos that does not refuse a dimension of theopoetics, but rather defines it in terms of divine polyphilia, the love of multiplicity. In an intricate play on Dante’s Divine Comedy, this book engages questions of religion and philosophy through the aporetic dynamics of love and power, locating its discussions in the midst of, and in between the spheres of a genuine philosophy of multiplicity. This philosophy originates from the poststructuralist approach of Gilles Deleuze and the process philosophical inspirations of Alfred N. Whitehead. As their chaosmos invites questions of ultimate reality, religious pluralism and multireligious engagement, a theopoetics of love will find paradoxical dissociations and harmonizations with postmodern sensitivities of language, power, knowledge and embodiment. At the intersection of poststructuralism’s and process theology’s insights in the liberating necessity of multiplicity for a postmodern cosmology, the book realizes its central claim. If there is a divine dimension of the chaosmos, it will not be found in any identification with mundane forces or supernatural powers, but on the contrary in the absolute difference of polyphilic love from creativity. Yet, the concurrent indifference of love and power—its mystical undecidability in terms of any conceptualization—will lead into existential questions of the insistence on multiplicity in a world of infinite becoming as inescapable background for its importance and creativeness, formulating an ecological and ethical impulse for a mystagogy of becoming intermezzo.

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Copyright year: 2014
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-9139-2
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-9140-8
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 589
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
Meditations on the Love of Multiplicity No access Pages 1 - 16
1. Fault Lines No access
2. Inter/Courses No access
3. Com/Positions No access
1. 1. Undefined Land No access
  2. Coup d’État No access
  3. Counter/Discourse No access
  4. Transgression No access
  5. Sur/Facing No access
2. 1. Raison d’Etre No access
  2. Seriality No access
  3. Transunification (Part I) No access
3. 1. Necessity No access
  2. Compatibility No access
  3. Difference No access
  4. Inversion No access
  5. Disruption No access
  6. Subtraction No access
4. 1. Poetic Reality No access
  2. Comedìa No access
  3. The In/finite No access
  4. Upaya No access
  5. Indetermination No access
  6. Ultimate Suspension No access
  7. Divine Interpretation No access
5. 1. Counter/Unification No access
  2. Eclipse/Ellipse No access
  3. Romantic Reaction No access
  4. Mimesis No access
  5. Symbolic Negotiations No access
  6. Intermezzo I No access
1. 1. Playground No access
  2. Polyphilic Zones No access
  3. Lethe No access
  4. After Being No access
2. 1. The Perfect Moment No access
  2. Cosmologies No access
  3. Chaos Regents No access
  4. Many Worlds No access
  5. Deep Cosmogony No access
  6. Branching Multiples No access
3. 1. Pure Play No access
  2. Supplement No access
  3. In Medias Res No access
  4. Clouds No access
  5. Complicity No access
  6. Dispossession No access
  7. Insistence No access
  8. Diffusion No access
  9. Poliphilio, Polia No access
4. 1. Habeas Corpus No access
  2. Emptying, Bodying No access
  3. In Fiction, Beyond No access
  4. Khora, Nexus No access
  5. Pure Life No access
  6. Orgiastic Divine No access
5. 1. Passages No access
  2. Knowing, Wounding No access
  3. Metamorphosis No access
  4. Virtualities, Values No access
  5. Mutual De/Composition No access
  6. Impermanence No access
  7. Im/permanence! No access
  8. Intermezzo II No access
1. 1. Unmoved by Love No access
  2. Powers to Be No access
  3. Deicide No access
  4. Laterality No access
  5. Dissociation No access
  6. Antinomy No access
2. 1. Plurivocity No access
  2. Divine Ocean No access
  3. Complication No access
  4. Plica Ex Plica No access
  5. Theoplicity No access
  6. Afterthought No access
3. 1. The Logic of A/voidance No access
  2. Transunification (Part II) No access
  3. In(finite) Interpretation No access
  4. Transpantheism No access
  5. Panentheism No access
  6. The Magic Formula No access
  7. Unio Creatrix No access
  8. Pan en Pleroma No access
4. 1. Eco-Consciousness No access
  2. The Anthropic Fallacy No access
  3. Translucency No access
  4. Eco-Bodying No access
  5. Creatio Continua No access
  6. Anthropic Indeterminacy No access
5. 1. Diffusion, Eventually No access
  2. Kenosis, Endogenesis No access
  3. Event-Horizon No access
  4. Gift and Theft No access
  5. Impossible! No access
1. On Chapter 15 No access
2. On Chapter 14 No access
3. On Chapter 13 No access
4. On Chapter 12 No access
5. On Chapter 11 No access
6. On Chapter 10 No access
7. On Chapter 9 No access
8. On Chapter 8 No access
9. On Chapter 7 No access
10. On Chapter 6 No access
11. On Chapter 5 No access
12. On Chapter 4 No access
13. On Chapter 3 No access
14. On Chapter 2 No access
15. On Chapter 1 No access
16. Before the One No access
Bibliography No access Pages 539 - 564
Index No access Pages 565 - 588
About the Author No access Pages 589 - 589