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Patrice Haynes
Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Faculty of Arts
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Teaching Summary
This semester I contribute lectures to the following modules: The Big Questions in Theology and Religious Studies (THEO1022); Philosophy of Religion (THEO2001/THEO3070) and History of Philosophy:… read more
Research Summary
My research is principally in the field of philosophy of religion broadly conceived. I am in the process of working on my second monograph that aims to show how philosophy of religion can be… read more
This semester I contribute lectures to the following modules: The Big Questions in Theology and Religious Studies (THEO1022); Philosophy of Religion (THEO2001/THEO3070) and History of Philosophy: Ancient to Modern (PHIL1017). I also lead seminars for Mind, Knowledge and Ethics (PHIL1013).
In addition to supervising undergraduate dissertations in philosophy, I am also the convenor for MA Dissertations (PHIL4001).
Current Research
My research is principally in the field of philosophy of religion broadly conceived. I am in the process of working on my second monograph that aims to show how philosophy of religion can be reconfigured in important ways by thinking with the (routinely neglected) intelligence of West African modes of religious life as well as the insights of decolonial theory and practices.
Future Research
My first monograph considers how materialist, post-Nietzschean strands of continental philosophy attempt to confound dualistic accounts of mind and body, spirit and matter by rethinking terms such as 'becoming', 'agency', 'life' and even 'divinity' in materialist directions, thus invoking what I call 'immanent transcendence'. Although the materialisation of transcendence (or immanent transcendence), evident in thinkers such as Deleuze, Irigaray and Adorno, promises to deliver a non-reductive materialism, and with this the basis for revisioning ethics, politics and religion in radical new ways, I argue that this strategy ultimately struggles to affirm the integrity of bodies and material things. At some point in the future, I wish to honour a promise I made at the end of my first book and that is to develop the idea of 'theological materialism', engaging with continental philosophy of religion in order to retrieve the idea of divine transcendence as one that supports the flourishing of worldly, embodied life.