{"title":"Books by John D. Caputo","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780241257852","title":"A Pelican Book: Hermeneutics","description":"Is anything ever \u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e an interpretation? \u003cbr\u003eDoes interpretation go all the way down? \u003cbr\u003eIs there such a thing as a pure fact that is interpretation-free? If not, how are we supposed to know what to think and do? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese tantalizing questions are tackled by renowned American thinker John D Caputo in this wide-reaching exploration of what the traditional term 'hermeneutics' can mean in a postmodern, twenty-first century world. As a contemporary of Derrida's and longstanding champion of rethinking the disciplines of theology and philosophy, for decades Caputo has been forming alliances across disciplines and drawing in readers with his compelling approach to what he calls \"radical hermeneutics.\" In this new introduction, drawing upon a range of thinkers from Heidegger to the Parisian \"1968ers\" and beyond, he raises a series of probing questions about the challenges of life in the postmodern and maybe soon to be 'post-human' world.'","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56227761946997,"sku":"9780241257852","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241257852_e4267bb2-a00d-4c34-a19a-7428b6fd1dd7.jpg?v=1786012758"},{"product_id":"9780231210959","title":"What to Believe? – Twelve Brief Lessons in Radical Theology","description":"If you no longer “believe in God,” the Supreme Being of classical theology, or you never did in the first place, is there anything you still ought to believe, anything you should cherish unconditionally, no matter what? In this lively and accessible book, addressed to believers, “recovering” believers, disbelievers, nonbelievers, and “nones” alike—to anyone in search of what they really do believe—the acclaimed philosopher and theologian John D. Caputo seeks out what there is to believe, with or without religion.   Writing in a lucid and witty style, Caputo offers a bold account of a “radical theology” that is anything but what the word theology suggests to most people. His point of departure is autobiographical, describing growing up in the world of pre-Vatican II Catholicism, serving as an altar boy, and spending four years in a Catholic religious order after high school. Caputo places Augustine’s Confessions, Tillich’s Dynamics of Faith, and Jacques Derrida and postmodern theory in conversation in the service of what he calls the “mystical sense of life.” He argues that radical theology is not simply an academic exercise but describes a concrete practice immediately relevant to the daily lives of believers and nonbelievers alike. What to Believe? is an engaging introduction to radical theology for all readers curious about what religion can mean today.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56227917660533,"sku":"9780231210959","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780231210959_a449df38-559a-43f0-8be0-fed0e003b356.jpg?v=1786012681"},{"product_id":"9780253211125","title":"The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Caputo's book is riveting. . . . A singular achievement of stylistic brio and impeccable scholarship, it breaks new ground in making a powerful case for treating Derrida as homo religiosis. . . . There can be no mistaking the importance of Caputo's work.\" —Edith Wyschogrod\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"No one interested in Derrida, in Caputo, or in the larger question of postmodernism and religion can afford to ignore this pathbreaking study. Taking full advantage of the most recent and least discussed writings of Derrida, it offers a careful and comprehensive account of the religious dimension of Derrida's thought.\" —Merold Westphal\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56230904103285,"sku":"9780253211125","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780253211125_3002af5b-7f59-4df5-a555-abc9d2bd145f.jpg?v=1786012130"},{"product_id":"9780253218285","title":"The Weakness of God","description":"\u003cp\u003eApplying an ever more radical hermeneutics (including Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology, Derridian deconstruction, and feminism), John D. Caputo breaks down the name of God in this irrepressible book. Instead of looking at God as merely a name, Caputo views it as an event, or what the name conjures or promises in the future. For Caputo, the event exposes God as weak, unstable, and barely functional. While this view of God flies in the face of most religions and philosophies, it also puts up a serious challenge to fundamental tenets of theology and ontology. Along the way, Caputo's readings of the New Testament, especially of Paul's view of the Kingdom of God, help to support the \"weak force\" theory. This penetrating work cuts to the core of issues and questions—What is the nature of God? What is the nature of being? What is the relationship between God and being? What is the meaning of forgiveness, faith, piety, or transcendence?—that define the terrain of contemporary philosophy of religion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56231169327477,"sku":"9780253218285","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780253218285_b0ecf137-d8a3-4238-b159-729dfc8b9bb6.jpg?v=1786012156"},{"product_id":"9780253063007","title":"Specters of God","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSpecters of God\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eGottheit\u003c\/i\u003e, through Luther's \u003ci\u003edeus absconditus\u003c\/i\u003e 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56231343718773,"sku":"9780253063007","price":76.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780253063007_f980f616-798f-4304-806c-d0a295751921.jpg?v=1786012760"},{"product_id":"9780253204424","title":"Radical Hermeneutics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This is a remarkable book: wide-ranging, resonant, and well-written; it is also reflective and personable, warm and engaging.\" —Philosophy and Literature\u003cbr\u003e \"With this book Caputo takes his place firmly as the foremost American, continental post-modernist . . . \" —International Philosophical Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e \"One cannot but be impressed by the scope of Radical Hermeneutics.\" —Man and World\u003cbr\u003e \"Caputo's study is stunning in its scope and scholarship.\" —Robert E. Lauder, St. John's University, The Thomist\u003cbr\u003e For John D. Caputo, hermeneutics means radical thinking without transcendental justification: attending to the ruptures and irregularities in existence before the metaphysics of presence has a chance to smooth them over. Radical Hermeneutics forges a closer collaboration between hermeneutics and deconstruction than has previously been attempted.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56232117666165,"sku":"9780253204424","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780253204424_72593432-345f-4ce4-b325-d59b3279da2b.jpg?v=1786012865"},{"product_id":"9781846146008","title":"Truth","description":"What is 'truth' in today's freewheeling, pluralistic world, without certainties or fixed ideas? Does it lie in the Reason of Descartes and Kant? Is it Derrida's idea of an event, still being made? Or, according to Nietzsche, an ensemble of fictions? Internationally renowned philosopher John D. Caputo explores truth in the postmodern age.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308215775605,"sku":"9781846146008","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781846146008_d50a831b-29e9-4474-8e05-c526cd225d29.jpg?v=1786029253"},{"product_id":"a-radical-god","title":"A Radical God","description":"Religion is making itself unbelievable—scandal-ridden, antiscientific, authoritarian, and reactionary. Can religion be saved? Is it even worth saving? Can religion be saved not just from its critics but from itself?John D. Caputo proposes a radical alternative—what he calls “religion’s last stand”—by turning to theopoetics. In the traditional account, theopoetics calls for approaching God poetically because God transcends human language. Caputo contests this view, arguing that in the radical account, God does not precede but is generated by the poetic imagination. Theopoetics is not adorning an already constituted God; it is constituting the very idea of God. A radical God, untethered from theological orthodoxy and confessional rivalries, is neither a real being nor an unreal illusion, neither the object of supernatural belief nor the reject of skeptical disbelief. By adopting a phenomenological suspension of both belief and disbelief, both theism and atheism, both the religious and the secular, Caputo demystifies the distinction between the natural and the supernatural and replaces it with the distinction between the prosaic and the poetic. A daring undertaking in radical theology, this lively and provocative book proposes a startlingly different future for religion.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57466548552053,"sku":"9780231223645","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-john-d-caputo.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}