Gilles Deleuze and the Atheist Machine

The Achievement of Philosophy

F. LeRon Shults

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Edinburgh University Press
11 June 2024

Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Social & political philosophy; Philosophy of religion; Agnosticism & atheism

In What is Philosophy?, Deleuze argued that atheism is not a drama but 'the philosopher's serenity and philosophy's achievement.'

LeRon Shults illustrates the uses and effects of an 'atheist machine' throughout Deleuze's work, demonstrating its central role in his philosophical achievements in metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. Shults also brings Deleuze's philosophy into dialogue with recent advances in computational social simulation, specifically multi-agent artificial intelligence modelling. Framing his argument in the context of empirical findings and theoretical developments in the scientific study of religion, he points toward the potentially creative role of atheist assemblages in addressing societal challenges associated with the Anthropocene.

By: F. LeRon Shults
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 513g
ISBN: 9781399529594
ISBN 10: 1399529595
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 11 June 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

F. LeRon Shults is Professor at the Institute for Global Development and Planning at the University of Agder and Research Professor at the NORCE Center for Modeling Social Systems in Kristiansand, Norway. He is the author of Iconoclastic Theology: Gilles Deleuze and the Secretion of Atheism (EUP, 2014) and Practicing Safe Sects: Religious Reprodution in Scientific and Philosophical Perspective (Brill, 2018). He is co-editor of Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Religion (Bloomsbury, 2016).

Reviews for Gilles Deleuze and the Atheist Machine: The Achievement of Philosophy

Not since DeLanda's Philosophy and Simulation has there been so penetrating an analysis of the philosophic consequences of systems thinking. Shults has found the atheist machine and wants us all to know that there's no turning it off. --Wesley J Wildman, Boston University