A passion for the impossible : John D. Caputo in focus / edited by Mark Dooley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dooley, Mark.

Series:

SUNY series in theology and continental thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caputo, John D.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 323 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2003]

Summary:

Presenting the first systematic appraisal of the thought of John D. Caputo, one of America's most respected and controversial continental thinkers, this book brings together internationally renowned philosophers, theologians, and cultural critics. One highlight of the work is an interview with Jacques Derrida in which Derrida talks candidly about his reaction to Caputo's writings and spells out the implications for religion and the question of God after deconstruction. Caputo responds to the concerns expressed by his interlocutors in the same humorous, erudite, and challenging spirit for which he is known. The result is a lively and stimulating debate, covering themes in the philosophy of religion, deconstruction, political philosophy, feminism, and hermeneutics, as well as issues surrounding the work of Aquinas, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, and Rorty.

Contents:

Saints and Postmodernism: Introduction xi

1. God and Anonymity: Prolegomena to an Ankhoral Religion / John D. Caputo 1

2. The Becoming Possible of the Impossible: An Interview with Jacques Derrida / Mark Dooley 21

A Games of Jacks: A Response to Derrida / John D. Caputo 34

3. Reflections on Caputo's Heidegger and Aquinas / W. Norris Clarke, S.J. 51

Nuptial Realism: A Response to Clarke / John D. Caputo 69

4. Heidegger's Fall / William J. Richardson, S.J. 73

The Heart of Concealment: A Response to Richardson / John D. Caputo 99

5. Khora or God? / Richard Kearney 107

Abyssus Abyssum Invocat: A Response to Kearney / John D. Caputo 123

6. A Reading of John D. Caputo's "God and Anonymity" / Lewis Ayres 129

The Violence of Ontology: A Response to Ayres / John D. Caputo 147

7. Postmodernism and Ethics: The Case of Caputo / Merold Westphal 153

"O felix culpa," This Foxy Fellow Felix: A Response to Westphal / John D. Caputo 171

8. Squaring the Hermeneutic Circle: Caputo as Reader of Foucault / Thomas R. Flynn 175

Hounding Hermeneutics: A Response to Flynn / John D. Caputo 195

9. In Praise of Prophesy: Caputo on Rorty / Mark Dooley 201

Achieving the Impossible

Rorty's Religion: A Response to Dooley / John D. Caputo 229

10. Faith, Hope, and Love: Radical Hermeneutics as a Pauline Philosophy of Religion / B. Keith Putt 237

Holding on by Our Teeth: A Response to Putt / John D. Caputo 251

11. Caputo's Example / Thomas A. Carlson 255

On Being Left without a Prayer: A Response to Carlson / John D. Caputo 276

12. The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Esoteric Comedy and the Poetics of Obligation / Cleo McNelly Kearns 283

Not in Tongues, but Tongue in Cheek: A Response to Kearns / John D. Caputo 295

13. Without Why, Without Whom: Thinking Otherwise with John D. Caputo / Edith Wyschogrod 299

On Being Attached to Philosophers and Prophets: A Response to Wyschogrod / John D. Caputo 311.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791456870

0791456889

OCLC:

50023481