关键词: 巴特比, 新基督, 内在性, 无器官的身体

Abstract: As a staunch antitheological philosopher, Gilles Deleuze paradoxically uses many theological expressions to analyze Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby the Scrivener”, and even considers Bartleby as the “New Christ” in our time. This seems to contradict his principle of immanence. In fact, Deleuze explicates Bartleby in the Christological genealogy of SpinozaNietzscheLawrence. Through an interpretation of the formula “I would prefer not to”, he makes Bartleby the “New Christ” whose “nothingness of the will” dispels transcendence and embraces immanence. The life of “New Christ” was expressed visually in Francis Bacon’s Crucifixion paintings. Moreover, in accordance with Benedict de Spinoza’s Ethics, what the “New Christ” preaches is a gospel “beyond good and evil”, inspiring human beings to proceed from passivity to activity. Therefore, the “New Christ” throughout Deleuze’s works on philosophy, literature and art is the “incarnation” (which means "logos became flesh") of immanence. In this case, “logos” indicates the logic of immanence and “flesh” signifies “body without organs”.

Key words: Bartleby, Christ, immanence, body without organs