A Passion for the Impossible: John D. Caputo in Focus

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CONTENTS Abbreviations ix Saints and Postmodernism: Introduction xi 1. God and Anonymity: Prolegomena to an Ankhoral Religion 1 John D. Caputo 2. The Becoming Possible of the Impossible: An Interview with Jacques Derrida 21 Mark Dooley A Games of Jacks: A Response to Derrida 34 John D. Caputo 3. Reflections on Caputo’s Heidegger and Aquinas 51 W. Norris Clarke, S.J. Nuptial Realism: A Response to Clarke 69 John D. Caputo 4. Heidegger’s Fall 73 William J. Richardson, S.J. The Heart of Concealment: A Response to Richardson 99 John D. Caputo 5. Khora or God? 107 Richard Kearney Abyssus Abyssum Invocat: A Response to Kearney 123 John D. Caputo 6. A Reading of John D. Caputo’s “God and Anonymity” 129 Lewis Ayres The Violence of Ontology: A Response to Ayres 147 John D. Caputo 7. Postmodernism and Ethics: The Case of Caputo 153 Merold Westphal “O felix culpa,” This Foxy Fellow Felix: A Response to Westphal 171 John D. Caputo 8. Squaring the Hermeneutic Circle: Caputo as Reader of Foucault 175 Thomas R. Flynn Hounding Hermeneutics: A Response to Flynn 195 John D. Caputo 9. In Praise of Prophesy: Caputo on Rorty 201 Mark Dooley Achieving the Impossible—Rorty’s Religion: A Response to Dooley 229 John D. Caputo 10. Faith, Hope, and Love: Radical Hermeneutics as a Pauline Philosophy of Religion 237 B. Keith Putt Holding on by Our Teeth: A Response to Putt 251 John D. Caputo 11. Caputo’s Example 255 Thomas A. Carlson On Being Left without a Prayer: A Response to Carlson 276 John D. Caputo 12. The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Esoteric Comedy and the Poetics of Obligation 283 Cleo McNelly Kearns Not in Tongues, but Tongue in Cheek: A Response to Kearns 295 John D. Caputo 13. Without Why, Without Whom: Thinking Otherwise with John D. Caputo 299 Edith Wyschogrod On Being Attached to Philosophers and Prophets: A Response to Wyschogrod 311 John D. Caputo Contributors 315 Index 319 viii Contents ...