Haynes - Immanent transcendence : reconfiguring materialism in continental philosophy

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Immanent Transcendence

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Immanent Transcendence

Reconfiguring Materialism in Continental Philosophy

Patrice Haynes

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Patrice Haynes, 2012

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Haynes, Patrice.

Immanent transcendence: reconfiguring materialism in continental philosophy/Patrice Haynes.

p. cm. (Continuum studies in continental philosophy)

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

ISBN 978-1-4411-2152-3 (hardcover) ISBN 978-1-4411-6290-8 (ebook (pdf))

1. Materialism. 2. Immanence (Philosophy) 3. Transcendence (Philosophy) 4. Continental philosophy. I. Title.

B825.H39 2012

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For Anthia and in memory of Jocelyn George and Laura B. Knight

Contents

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 Jannine 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 philosophy 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 OShea, 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 couldnt resist), for your unfailing confidence in me, for your patience during 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 Irigarays 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. 27996 and is reused here with kind permission from Springer Science+Business Media. Chapter Four contains excerpts from Transcendence, Materialism, and the Reenchantment of Nature: Toward a Theological Materialism in Women and the Divine: Touching Transcendence, eds. Gillian Howie and Jannine Jobling (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.