Iconoclastic Theology
Gilles Deleuze and the Secretion of Atheism
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:17th Mar '14
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

F. LeRon Shults explores Deleuze’s fascination with theological themes and shows how his entire corpus can be understood as a creative atheist machine that liberates thinking, acting and feeling. Shults also demonstrates how the flow of a productive atheism can be increased by bringing Deleuzian concepts into dialogue with insights derived from the bio-cultural sciences of religion.
In this exciting, tightly-argued and in some ways scandalous book, F. LeRon Shults deploys a sensitive yet shocking reading of Deleuze to offer us a new atheism. Unlike so many of the inept atheist movements of our age, his ideas are attuned to the deep calling of religious icons and to new sciences. His rigorous research in theology, easy style and the original tracks he cuts through Deleuze and Guattari's works make this a thrilling moment in the critique of religion and the invention of new theologies. * James Williams, University of Dundee *
This is an astonishing book. Shults has made Deleuze accessible and shown precisely how Deleuze’s conceptual world matters for theology. The interpretation is simultaneously true to Deleuze and an expression of a new turn in the thinking of one of the finest theologians of our era. * Wesley Wildman, Boston University *
ISBN: 9780748684137
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 492g
240 pages