Loving without memory: on the concept of salvation from Deleuze's Spinoza to Spinoza's Deleuze

<p>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.</p>

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Philosophy

Year dc:date.available

2023

Author dc:creator

• Aldieri, Eric

• Deleuze
• Spinoza
• salvation
• metaphysics
• soteriology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://via.library.depaul.edu/etd/361

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:via.library.depaul.edu:etd-1367