Thinking with Faith, Thinking as Faith: What Comes After Onto-theo-logy?

Abstract: Despite Heidegger’s constant claims to the contrary, thinking is not opposed to faith. Indeed, against his own intentions, Heidegger’s critique of onto-theo-logy, which breaks the grip of modernity, issues in a faith more radically conceived. This faith is the thinking, this thinking is the faith that becomes possible in the post-secular space which Heidegger’s critique of modernity opens. Although the great medieval theologians like Augustine and Aquinas are not onto-theo-logians in a strict sense, they, along with the whole history of metaphysics, fall under its wider sense of any centered and foundational discourse. But any discourse that eludes onto-theo-logy in the wider sense finds itself embracing a faith, not reducible to belief, where thinking is a form of faith and faith is a form of thinking. Derrida’s “Circumfession,” a paradigmatic post-ontotheological discourse, is a work of prayer and a confession of faith in the open-endedness of the event, an un-programmable future (à venir). This text communicates with Heidegger thinking the “open,” the “promise” of language, of the Zukunft embedded in the Herkunft, constituting the “piety of thinking.”

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Thinking with Faith, Thinking as Faith: What Comes After Onto-theo-logy? ; volume:8 ; number:1 ; year:2022 ; pages:237-247 ; extent:11 ; Open theology ; 8, Heft 1 (2022), 237-247 (gesamt 11)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Caputo, John D.

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.1515/opth-2022-0204
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022080414115430981335
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 15.08.2025, 07:31 MESZ