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Apophatic Bodies: Negative Theology, Incarnation, and Relationality

Chris Boesel and Catherine Keller

Print publication date: 2009

Print ISBN-13: 9780823230815

Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: March 2011

DOI: 10.5422/fso/9780823230815.001.0001

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Bodies of the Void: Polyphilia and Theoplicity

Bodies of the Void: Polyphilia and Theoplicity

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(p.200) Bodies of the Void: Polyphilia and Theoplicity
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Apophatic Bodies
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Roland Faber

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Fordham University Press
DOI:10.5422/fso/9780823230815.003.0010

In Alfred North Whitehead and Gilles Deleuze, there are two direct accounts of “bodies of the void”, that is, of “apophatic bodies”, that conceptualize the “bodying of the apophatic” (in the second sense). Both concepts undercut any negation of bodying, but negate its dualistic construction of identity and unity. A better way of phrasing it might be that they uncover bodying in its apophatic dimension of becoming, and they insist on multiplication as the veiled event in all structuring and subject-creating of the body. In bodying the apophatic, these bodies live only by the traversing multiplicities of their becoming. Apophatic bodying, hence, is the caring about multiplicity, the love for the multiple. Its event of becoming is polyphilic. In God's apophatic activity, God is the event of theoplicity, of insistence on multiplicity, in being the apophatic bodying of multiplicity, in being the polyphilic Eros of initiation and, at the same time, the polyphilic salvation of the self-created multiplicity of the World of Creative Act, thereby insisting on its diversity.

Keywords:   Alfred North Whitehead, Gilles Deleuze, bodies of the void, World of Creative Act, multiplicity, apophatic bodying, theoplicity, polyphilic salvation

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