The Descent of Transcendence into Immanence, or, Deleuze as a Hegelian

If there ever was, in the twentieth century, a philosopher of absolute immanence, it was Gilles Deleuze, with his notion of life as “the immanence of immanence, absolute immanence: it is sheer power, utter beatitude.”1 Deleuze’s main reference in this assertion of immanence was Spinoza, whom Deleuze celebrated as the “Christ of philosophers”—so who (or, rather, what) is Spinoza?