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GOD-IN-THE-WORLd


[NB - THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS - draft]

Set loose by the “theological turn” in French Phenomenology, as if thrown from a speeding vehicle on a radical curve in the road, the genealogical trajectory of a hermeneutical theopoetics that approaches the textuality of the text within the framework of a marginalized, circumscribed pathos—a non-rational, poetic voice that disrupts, overrides and surpasses the deductive, positivist designs of any dominating logos—can be found in a nascent, perhaps propaedeutic form in Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology. Husserl’s failed transcendental assault on the citadel of apodicticity was taken up and advanced in the existential analytic of dasein and the later poetic work of Martin Heidegger, (where the poetic nature of language is first advanced as an originary hermeneutics). Heidegger’s existential phenomenology was carried forward grudgingly and surpassed in the originary phenomenological ethics of Emmanuel Levinas. It is with Levinas that the poetic alterity of the Otherwise-than-being reaches inexorably toward ‘expressing the inexpressible’ event of God-in-the-world [note Caputo] in the language of an originary, proto-theopoetics.  An explicit framing of “theopoetics” is first deployed in the decontructionist hermeneutics of John Caputo’s recent work. Although Caputo takes phenomenological theology to new and daring levels in the “softer, gentler” radicality of the “weak” approach to the text he proposes, the theopoetics he launches as an alternative to metaphysics gets caught up in its own deconstructive abandon that constrains his analysis from digging down into the deepest, somewhat ‘messy’, bodily roots of the poetic. 

Caputo’s theopoetics is sifted through Derrida’s deconstructionist program with the aim of disrupting classical theology and running interference for a supposed vulnerability of the divine in the world—not a task that is well-suited to poetry. As a result, Caputo’s rendering of theopoetics as the backbone of his “weak theology” does not fully incorporate its most radical embodiment of actualizing or operationalizing concretely a personal, affective, and spiritual therapeiain the service of a radical personal transformation, a metanoia of the theo-poet which alone would allow God an opening into the personal world of the theopoet. In Caputo’s modeling, theopoetics remains a sophisticated hermeneutical gesture of linguistic analysis and to that extent is innovative and helpful, but incomplete. It gets stuck at the level of an abstract intuitive methodology or epistemic way of dealing with the text safely at arm’s length and devoid of personal commitment, not unlike the very approach of the classical theology that Caputo wishes to disrupt.

GOD-IN-THE-WORLD: THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL ROOTS OF A HERMENEUTICAL THEOPOETICS (pdf)Download

INTRO TO ETHICS

INTRO TO ETHICS - DEVELOPING YOUR PERSONAL MORAL POWER - full text (262 pp.) (pdf)Download
INTRO TO ETHICS - FOREWORD + INTRODUCTION (pdf)Download
INTRO TO ETHICS - CHAPTER 1 - MORAL PHILOSOPHY (pdf)Download
INTRO TO ETHICS - CHAPTER 2 - MORAL PSYCHOLOGY (pdf)Download
INTRO TO ETHICS - CHAPTER 3 - JUSTICE, CARE, AND MORAL SUBJECTIVITY (pdf)Download
INTRO TO ETHICS - CHAPTER 4 - PERSONAL MORAL DEVELOPMENT (pdf)Download
INTRO TO ETHICS - CHAPTER 5 - RATIONAL MORAL DECISION MAKING (pdf)Download
INTRO TO ETHICS - CHAPTER 6 - STOICISM AND PERSONAL MORAL POWER (pdf)Download
INTRO TO ETHICS - CHAPTER 7 - THE LIMITS OF PERSONAL MORAL POWER (pdf)Download
INTRO TO ETHICS - CHAPTER 8 - SOCIAL JUSTICE - THE GOOD SOCIETY (pdf)Download
INTRO TO ETHICS - CHAPTER 9 - SOCIAL JUSTICE - RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE OTHER (pdf)Download
INTRO TO ETHICS - APPENDICES - 1-6 (pdf)Download

CASE STUDIES IN MORAL PHILOSOPHY

CASE STUDIES IN MORAL PHILOSOPHY: PUTTING ETHICS INTO EVERYDAY PRACTICE - full text (225 pp.) (pdf)Download
CASE STUDIES - INTRODUCTION TO THE TEXT + TOPIC 1 - THE MORAL NATURE OF BUSINESS (pdf)Download
CASE STUDIES - TOPIC 2 - CREATING SHARED VALUE (pdf)Download
CASE STUDIES - TOPIC 3 - CONSCIOUS CAPITALISM (pdf)Download
CASE STUDIES - TOPIC 4 - GENDER, FREE SPEECH, AND BIAS IN THE WORKPLACE (pdf)Download
CASE STUDIES - TOPIC 5 - CODES OF ETHICS (pdf)Download
CASE STUDIES - TOPIC 6 - QUOTAS FOR WOMEN ON BOARDS (pdf)Download
CASE STUDIES - TOPIC 7 - ALGORITHMS, BIG DATA, MORAL AGENCY (pdf)Download
CASE STUDIES - TOPIC 8 - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ETHICS (pdf)Download
CASE STUDIES - TOPIC 9 - TARGETING CHILDREN AS CONSUMERS (pdf)Download
CASE STUDIES - TOPIC 10 - BLOWING THE WHISTLE AND COMPANY LOYALTY (pdf)Download
CASE STUDIES - TOPIC 12 - AGRIBUSINESS AND ARTISANAL FARMING (pdf)Download
CASE STUDIES - TOPIC 13 - GLOBAL EXTRACTION ETHICS (pdf)Download

E. LEVINAS - THE PRIORITY OF RESPONSIBILITY

THE PRIORITY OF RESPONSIBILITY IN THE ETHICAL PHILOSOPHY OF EMMANUEL LEVINAS [(ABSTRACT)] (pdf)Download
TABLE OF CONTENTS - INTRODUCTION (pdf)Download
CHAPTER 1 - EARLY INFLUENCES AND OVERVIEW OF LEVINAS' ETHICAL PHENOMENOLOGY (pdf)Download
CHAPTER 2 - LEVINAS' CRITIQUE OF HUSSERL'S PHENOMENOLOGICAL METHOD (pdf)Download
CHAPTER 3 - SENSATION, REPRESENTATION, AND EVIDENCE: LEVINAS' RE-EVALUATION OF HUSSERL (pdf)Download
CHAPTER 4 - LEVINAS' CRITIQUE OF HEIDEGGER AND EXTENSION OF THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL METHOD (pdf)Download
CHAPTER 5 - THE ESCAPE FROM BEING: RESPONSIBILITY AS SELF-ASSERTION (pdf)Download
CHAPTER 6 - REPRESENTATIONAL INTENTIONALITY AND METAPHYSICAL DESIRE (pdf)Download
CHAPTER 7 - THE ESCAPE FROM SOLITUDE: RESPONSIBILITY AS RESPONSE-ABILITY (pdf)Download
CHAPTER 8 - BEYOND SOCIALITY: RESPONSIBILITY AND THE FEMININE (pdf)Download
CHAPTER 9 - SUBJECTIVITY AS RESPONSIBILITY: EXTERIORITY AND GOD-IN-THE-WORLD (pdf)Download
PRELIMINARY CONCLUSIONS (pdf)Download
REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY (pdf)Download

PHILOSOPHICAL POETICS AND THE LANGUAGE OF BEING

PHILOSOPHICAL POETICS: AN INTRODUCTION TO TEXT (pdf)Download
1. SPEAKING THE UNSPEAKABLE: A PHILOSOPHICAL-POETIC INTERPRETATION OF PLATO'S SOPHIST (pdf)Download
2. WRITING WITH BLOOD: LANGUAGE AND NIETZSCHE'S HERMENEUTIC PHILOSOPHY (pdf)Download
3. MERLEAU PONTY: AN ORGANISM OF WORDS (pdf)Download
4. THE HEALING WORD: LANGUAGE, THINKING, AND BEING IN THE EARLIER AND LATER HEIDEGGER (pdf)Download
5. LANGUAGE AND RESPONSIBILITY IN THE ETHICAL PHILOSOPHY OF EMMANUEL LEVINAS (pdf)Download

THE WAY OF THE SEER

Notes from the Road

  

"Engaging with wonder, opening yourself to it, allowing the otherwise of wonder to engage you…that is the beginning of the philosophical way of life that you will find revealed in these few pages.  It is the first practice: renunciation and letting go, the wrenching free from conventional attitudes, prejudices, biases, fears, and pre-judgments—a 'Diogenes moment'—and a taking up of the reflective, phenomenologically reduced philosophical-poetic attitude that you will find unveiled herein. The philosophical-poetic attitude is the welcome mat at the front door of the way of the seer...."

THE WAY OF THE SEER (pdf)

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