In this dissertation, I read Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy in light of its debt to that of Benedict de Spinoza to argue that an immanent and non-teleological conception of salvation can be found throughout Deleuze’s later works. I critically examine Deleuze’s reading of Spinoza found in his 1968 study before turning to a constructive reading of his later texts with Guattari. Across these works, I show that what is “saved” in Deleuzian soteriology is not the subject or the person, but an impersonal and memory-less degree of intensity.
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