Specters of God An Anatomy of the Apophatic Imagination

John D. Caputo, "Specters of God: An Anatomy of the Apophatic Imagination"
English | ISBN: 0253063000 | 2022 | 416 pages | PDF | 25 MB
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