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--_.. Joshua Ramey Philosophy and Spiritual Ordeal Duke University Press Durham and London 2012 © 2012 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper @ Designed by C. H. Westmoreland Typeset in Charis by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. Cover artfor the paperback book by Paul du Coudray Ce qui fonde alors c'est l'epreuve -GILLES DELEUZE, WhatIs Grounding? Contents List of Abbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Secrets of Immanence 1 1. Philosophical Modernity and Experimental Imperative 11 2. Dark Precursors: The Hermetic Tradition 3. The Force of Symbols: Deleuze and the Esoteric Sign 82 4. The Overturning of Platonism 112 5. Becoming Cosmic 148 6. The Politics of Sorcery 171 7. The Future of Belief 200 Coda: Experimental Faith 21 9 Notes 225 Bibliography 275 Index 283 32 List of Abbreviations AO: Anti-Oedipus ATP: A Thousand Plateaus B: Bergsonism C1: Cinema I: The Movement-Image C2: Cinema II: The Time-Image CC: Essays Critical and Clinical D: Dialogues D2: Dialogues II DI: Desert Islands and Other Texts (1953-1974) DR: Difference and Repetition E: Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza ES: Empiricism and Subjectivity FB: Francis Bacon and the Logic of Sensation LS: Logic of Sense F: The Fold: On Leibniz and the Baroque MSP: "Mathesis, Science, and Philosophy" NP: Nietzsche and Philosophy PI: PUre Immanence: A Life PS: Proust and Signs WG: What Is Grounding? WIP: What Is Philosophy? Acknowledgments My sense of dependence upon a vast network of allies and cohorts is so strong that it seems almost impossible to know where to begin. Deleuze's advice was to begin in the middle, so I will start in the thick of it. Rocco Gangle's constant support and companionship, from the moment we met in 2003, has been an unfailing source of energy for the premonitions and intuitions this book attempts to put into form. With­ out Christian Kerslake's pioneering and peerlessly researched forays into the rhizome of Deleuze's philosophical and spiritual genealogy, and without his unfailing encouragement, this proj ect would never have reached fruition. Paul Harris was an enormous ally, and his proposal that we coedit SubStance 39, no. 1, "Spiritual Politics after Deleuze," was absolutely crucial to the development of the ideas expressed here. I am deeply indebted to all the contributors to that volume for how they refined and deepened the aspects of Deleuze's thought this book attempts to elaborate. I also want to thank Patricia Pisters for inviting me to be an instructor at Deleuze Camp 2010 in Amsterdam, where key sections of the book were presented for the first time to Deleuze schol­ ars. The enthusiasm of the students, and of instructors Gregg Lambert, Ian Buchanan, James Williams, Elena del Rio, and Eleanor Kauffman, were invaluable for the final stages of the work. lowe Creston Davis an enormous debt for the enthusiasm he showed for the earliest version of this manuscript, and for presenting it as such