From: LE_FAVE-AT-delphi.com
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 11:02:35 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Substance and Attributes


O, boy (the beardless-other-potential-citizen-beloved-of-Alah),
do I feel like ranting about the history of negative theology,
transcendental method, and Christian existentialism!  I will
perhaps restrain myself.   O, you philosophers--beware the
theology embedded in the cognates of your linguistic apparatus
(let alone your concepts).  But, as a theologian, I would like
to thank Ed Kazarian for his brilliant and concise TOTAL
REFUTATION (in outline) of Howie.  Deleuze, like anyone who has
seriously reflected on the nature of the Godhead,  is indeed a
determinist for the reasons that Ed listed.  "THERE IS NO
'POSSIBILITY' IN DELEUZE"  Deleuze is one of the few of his
generation that has only good things to say about Sartre,
especially the Sartre of <Being and Nothingness>.  this is
because he wholly adopts Heideggarian temporal critiques and
takes them much further to (at his best) totally replace
temporal theory with (as in Foucault) a dynamics of archival
arrangement, which, once done, eradicates the negative (Hegelian
dialectic) qualities (the futural qualities) in that arrangement
(sein-zum-Tode).  THIS COULD NOT BE FURTHER FROM DESCARTES.  And
it could not be further from Howie's (totally bizarre) equation
of extension with time-space (categories that even Kant could
not conflate) in the opposition Extension/Thought (body/mind). 
Further, Deleuze adopts a post-structualist (and here
anti-Sartrian/anti-huminist) displacement of the subject into
that archival (and machinic) arrangement such that the
particular freedom of the machine is its ability to manifest the
dynamics of its couplings in the arrangement.  this is a
Spinozist definition of freedom exactly, but it is also a much
more rigorous notion of authenticity, after having made it
explicit that Dasein in not a subject.  Or, after Sartre, we
might call it (as I like to) "GOOD FAITH" because it marks the
eradication of negativity, dialectic, transcendence, futurality,
history--possibility.  In short, it marks the total outpouring
of the Godhead into the plane of immanence: THE INCARNATION.

This is why SPINOZA IS THE CHRIST.  

 
--Dominic Le Fave
Saint Joseph's Day
New Orleans


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