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.
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