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Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences 5 (2015 8) 852-863
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УДК 165.324
“Plane of Immanence”
and Apology of Transcendence
Vitalii N. Drobyshev*
Russian Christian Academy of the Humanities
15 naberezhnaia reki Fontanki, Saint-Petersburg, 190000, Russia
Received 14.11.2014, received in revised form 19.12.2014, accepted 17.01.2015
The motive of immanence and its excogitation in philosophy of Gilles Deleuze is investigated in the
article. Author shows the impossibility of equation of the existential absurdity and philosophical
inconceivability, and, basing on this af irmation, excludes the possibility of theological perspective
of the “Plane of immanence”, in spite of the fact that the renewed concept of transcendental lies
outside the realm of idem perspective. The overcoming of faith in Deleuze’s philosophy strings along
with circumstantiation of the terms of real experience, opposable to terms of its possibility as such.
However, the analysis of this philosophy in its apophatic perspective shows the impossibility of
replacing hypothetical character with the reality of experience.
Keywords: Deleuze, apophasis, faith, transcendence, immanence, existential.
Research area: philosophy.
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* Corresponding author E-mail address: v.drobyshev@mail.ru
Christian theology, focused on a real life
of man and speaking about the immanence of
God, is not surprising us today. In this behalf
the advantages of immanent God over the
transcendent appear to be tempting, since they
open a ways for topical sermon, which advocates
for improvement of the world in alignment with
its inner divine deepness.
There are no dificulties to see that this
theology feeds up not only by the common
transformation of religiosity, in which all the
evidence of fatigue of transcendent can be
simply discovered, but also by the thought
which propels pan(en)teism to the new level of
conceptualization. Among the modern concepts
that feed up immanent theology, the major ones
seems to be the “faith without faith” that inherits
the deconstruction, and “plane of immanence”.
In this article we will turn to the philosophy of
G. Deleuze with intent to, by the example of this
philosophy, trace the disruption of transcendent
and resolve the issue of the possibility of
immanence to become a theological condition.
1. The motif
“Plane of immanence” appears as a explicate
substantiation of the motif of immanence.
Agreeing with this motif, live can be only
justiied by the multiplicity, whereas endurance
that underlines it can not be enchained by discrete
cohesions of totalizations and subjectiications.
Founding of authorities, which unify life and
keep under the multiplication of differences, as it
peculiar, according to Deleuze, to the Plato’s ideas,