Breaking Theological Icons
Breaking Theological Icons
This chapter introduces the first and perhaps most obvious sense in which Deleuze’s theology is iconoclastic: it hammers away at the Platonic notion of icons as good copies of ideal models. In fact, his whole philosophical project contributed to the inversion or “reversal of Platonism,” a phrase Deleuze borrows from Nietzsche but develops in his own way. Exploring Deleuze’s passion for overturning Platonism is also a good place to start because it further clarifies the sense in which his iconoclasm is theological, criticizing and constructing hypotheses about the conditions for axiological engagement. This chapter focuses on the resources Deleuze finds in Kant, Spinoza and Nietzsche for overturning religious figures.
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