'Barber provides us with the definitive study of the significance of immanence for political theology. Refusing to give up on either naming God or responding to suffering, Barber opens up new ground that displaces the stale opposition between the religious and the secular. This is a work of exceptional sophistication and depth of thought which sets the agenda for advancing the Christian tradition into immanence.'
Philip Goodchild, University of Nottingham
'Barber has made several interesting and much needed interventions on the topic of theology and immanence in recent years. This book is something of a summation of these important interventions, but more than that, it completely changes the terms of traditional debates on this issue.'
Kenneth Surin, Duke University
An intersection between Deleuze's philosophy and the question of religion
Deleuze's philosophy of immanence vigorously rejects every appeal to the beyond. For this reason, it is often presumed to be indifferent to the concerns of religion. Daniel Colucciello Barber shows that this is not the case. Addressing the intersection between Deleuze's thought and the notion of religion, he shows how both are motivated by a demand to create novel modes of existence. It is therefore necessary to discard your presumption: the enemy of Deleuze's philosophy is not religion but the transcendent.
Deleuze and the Naming of God shows how Deleuzian immanence is able both to oppose religious transcendence and to enter an alliance with immanent accounts of the name of God. In doing so, it shows a way out of the paralysing debate between religion and the secular.
Daniel Colucciello Barber is a Fellow at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry. He is the author of On Diaspora: Christianity, Religion, and Secularity (2011).
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Daniel Colucciello Barber is the author of On Diaspora: Christianity, Religion, and Secularity (Cascade, 2011). He is currently a Fellow at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry.

Acknowledgements; Introduction; A Proclamation; Three Trajectories for Deleuze's Immanence; Deleuze and Philosophy of Religion; Surveying the Argument; 1. Beginning With Difference: Heidegger, Derrida, and the Time of Thought; Heidegger's Difference: A 'More Originary Way'?; Don't Think Ahead of Time: From Heidegger to Derrida; What Comes After Différance?; 2. Deleuze: The Difference Immanence Makes; The Architecture of Immanence; Re-expression and the Unconditioned Power of Immanence; Giving Intensity to the Mode of Existence; Virtually New; Is Time a Crystal?; Dividing Time; The Autonomy of the Product; The Ethics of Re-expression and the Naming of God; 3. Stuck in the Middle: Milbank, Hart, the Time of Chronos; 'The Dog is in the Garden': God's Being and the Meaning of 'Is'; Violent Origins; The Interstice and the Accord; Ethics of the Crack; The 'Suspended Middle'; Back to the Present; 4. Yoder: From the Particular to the Divine; Against the Powers; 'A Host of Other Free Agents': Exceeding the Frame; Secular Creativity; Equality With God is Not Something to be Emanated; Time for Re-writing; 5. Adorno: A Metaphilosophy of Immanence; The Mediation of Nonidentity; Conceiving the More; 'We lack creation': A Deleuzian Metaphilosophy?; Shame, Suffering, and Metaphilosophy; Senseless Animals; 6. Icons of Immanence: Believe the Now-Here, Fabulate the No-Where; Bleakness and Belief; Intolerability; The Creation of Real Beings; Communication; Utopia; The Fabulation of Icons; Conclusion: Toward the Future.