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.”

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: 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)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Caputo, John D.

Further information

• DOI: 10.1515/opth-2022-0204
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022080414115430981335
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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