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Immanent Transcendence
Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy is a major monograph series from Bloomsbury. The
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Each work makes a major contribution to the field of philosophical research.
Adorno’s Concept of Life, Alastiar Morgan
Adorno’s Poetics of Critique, Steven Helmling
Badiou and Derrida, Antonio Calcagno
Badiou, Marion and St Paul, Adam Miller
Being and Number in Heidegger’s Thought, Michael Roubach
Crisis in Continental Philosophy, Robert Piercey
Deleuze and Guattari, Fadi Abou-Rihan
Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy of History, Jay Lampert
Deleuze and the Genesis of Representation, Joe Hughes
Derrida, Simon Morgan Wortham
Derrida and Disinterest, Sean Gaston
Derrida: Ethics Under Erasure, Nicole Anderson
Domestication of Derrida, Lorenzo Fabbri
Encountering Derrida, Simon Morgan Wortham
Foucault’s Heidegger, Timothy Rayner
Foucault’s Legacy, C.G. Prado
Gabriel Marcel’s Ethics of Hope, Jill Graper Hernandez
Gadamer and the Question of the Divine, Walter Lammi
Gilles Deleuze, Constantin V. Boundas
Heidegger and a Metaphysics of Feeling, Sharin N. Elkholy
Heidegger and Authenticity, Mahon O’Brien
Heidegger and Happiness, Matthew King
Heidegger and Philosophical Atheology, Peter S. Dillard
Heidegger and the Place of Ethics, Michael Lewis
Heidegger Beyond Deconstruction, Michael Lewis
Heidegger, Politics and Climate Change, Ruth Irwin
Heidegger’s Early Philosophy, James Luchte
In the Shadow of Phenomenology, Stephen H. Watson
Irony of Heidegger, Andrew Haas
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Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology, Kirk M. Besmer
Michel Henry, Jeffrey Hanson
Nietzsche and the Anglo-Saxon Tradition, Louise Mabille
Nietzsche’s Ethical Theory, Craig Dove
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Phenomenology, Institution and History, Stephen H. Watson
Ricoeur and Lacan, Karl Simms
Sartre’s Phenomenology, David Reisman
Simultaneity and Delay, Jay Lampert
Thinking Between Deleuze and Kant, Edward Willatt
Who’s Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari?, Gregg Lambert
Zizek and Heidegger, Thomas Brockelman
Immanent Transcendence
Reconfiguring Materialism in Continental Philosophy
Patrice Haynes
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For Anthia and in memory of Jocelyn George and Laura B. Knight
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Contents
Acknowledgements viii
List of Abbreviations x
Introduction: Rethinking Materialism and Transcendence 1
1 Deleuze and Spinoza: The Metaphysics of Pure Immanence 13
2 Becoming-Other 55
3 Irigaray’s Sensible Transcendental 87
4 Adorno, Negative Dialectics and Materialism 127
5 Towards a Theological Materialism 151
Notes 161
Bibliography 191
Index 201
Acknowledgements
I am grateful to, and would like to acknowledge, a number of people who have helped
me in various ways during the writing of this publication. First, I wish to thank
J’annine Jobling who supervised my doctoral thesis, the arguments of which I have
sought to develop in this book. I also wish to thank Michael McGhee and Gillian
Howie for their truly inspirational teaching and for supporting me in my graduate
studies and beyond.
My colleagues at Liverpool Hope University also deserve acknowledgement for
their interest in my work and their encouraging words during the writing of this book.
In particular, special thanks must go to Steven Shakespeare for patiently listening to
my inchoate ideas and for helping me to sharpen them and to Charlie Blake for many
discussions on Deleuze. Also, I am most grateful to Mary Mills for her support of my
work and for reading much of this manuscript, providing me with some helpful advice.
I am also indebted to Ursula Leahy who kindly compiled the bibliography. I also wish
to thank Philip Goodchild for our discussions on Deleuze and immanence and Pamela
Sue Anderson for both her inspirational, ground-breaking work on feminist philoso-
phy of religion and for her thoughtful support of my own work.
I have tremendous gratitude to all my friends who have had to put up with my
hermitage while I have been writing this book. To my best friend Sharon Morse and
her husband Gary and daughter Evelyn (my adopted niece), and to Kate O’Shea, Hilka
Querl, Ruth Knox, Hannah Bacon and all at Christ Church, Liverpool, thank you for
your incredible patience and for your encouragement. Special mention must be given
to Guy Tourlamain who has shared a similar writing journey with me and whose
friendship has helped me through the testing times.
My final thanks must go to my family: to my lovely sister Janine for being one of the
funniest and most generous persons I know; and to my father for always encouraging
my love of learning. I have chosen to dedicate this book to my mother, Anthia and
to the loving memory of my two grandmothers, Jocelyn George and Laura Knight,
who both sadly passed away during the writing of this book. Thank you so much
Anita (I couldn’t resist), for your unfailing confidence in me, for your patience dur-
ing my long absences, for your constant encouragement in all I do, and for your love.
I also want to acknowledge the lives of my two grandmothers, strong women full of
love and faith, and who always supported my decisions. I miss, and will not forget,
either of you.
Parts of Chapter Three draws on an earlier paper published as ‘The Problem of
Transcendence in Irigaray’s Philosophy of Sexual Difference’, in New Topics in Feminist
Philosophy of Religion: Contestations and Transcendence Incarnate, ed. Pamela Sue
Anderson (Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer, 2010), pp. 279–96
Acknowledgements ix
and is reused here with kind permission from Springer Science+Business Media.
Chapter Four contains excerpts from ‘Transcendence, Materialism, and the Reenchant-
ment of Nature: Toward a Theological Materialism’ in Women and the Divine: Touching
Transcendence, eds. Gillian Howie and J’annine Jobling (New York and Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.
