Specters of God: An Anatomy of the Apophatic Imagination

Specters of God: The Anxious Apophatics by John D.

Caputo - A groundbreaking exploration of the nocturnal powers in being, the specters that haunt our existence, and their impact on our understanding of God.

Caputo delves into the works of medieval angelology, Eckhart's Gottheit, Luther's deus absconditus, Schelling's "Satanology," and the spectralization and virtualization of the world in the "posthuman" age.

He argues that the name of God is not a super-being who will save us but a placeholder for sources deep in our apophatic imaginary.

Has "God" become a (holy) ghost of the past? A passing spectral effect of the ancient harmonies of the spheres? This thought-provoking work culminates in a cosmopoetics beyond theism and its theology, inviting readers to embrace the transient glory of the world.