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Specters of God - An Anatomy of the Apophatic Imagination (Hardcover)
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Specters of God - An Anatomy of the Apophatic Imagination (Hardcover)
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In Specters of God, John D. Caputo returns to the original impulse
of his work, the "mystical element" in things, here under the name
of an "anxious apophatics," as distinct from an "edifying
apophatics" anchored in unity with God. In dialogue with Schelling,
a new turn for him and the lynchpin of this argument, Caputo
addresses the nocturnal powers in being, the specters that haunt
our being and bring us up short. The result is an erudite and
insightful analysis-in his usual lively and masterful style-of
several key "spectral" figures from medieval angelology and
Eckhart's Gottheit, through Luther's deus absconditus and
Schelling's "Satanology," to the spectralization and virtualization
of the world in the "posthuman" age. Arguing that the name of God
is not the master name of a super-being who is going to save us but
a placeholder for sources deep in our apophatic imaginary, he asks,
Has "God" become a (holy) ghost of the past? A passing spectral
effect of the ancient harmonies of the spheres? Does radical
thinking culminate in a cosmopoetics beyond theism and its
theology, in a doxology to the transient glory of the world,
whatever it was in the beginning, however eerie its end, world
without why?
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