tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post6201625998795495239..comments2023-12-15T21:49:46.651+01:00Comments on Pluralist Speaks: Going Caput with CaputoPluralist (Adrian Worsfold)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01922153724523820866noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post-5246890728444287992011-09-08T13:23:09.404+02:002011-09-08T13:23:09.404+02:00I too remember those little late night OU expositi...I too remember those little late night OU expositions on history and the historical methods by Arthur Marwick . So clear , so down to earth . It always brought out that Humean empiricist streak in me , especially concerning history . I would often think of Humes marvellous HISTORY OF ENGLAND and imagine it was the noble Scot himself speaking to me . I hadn't heard that Arthur Marwick was no longer with us , sadly missed .<br /><br />John D Caputo is indeed an interesting theologian . He describes himself as a hybrid theologian / philosopher ,indeed along with Don Cupitt I would put him firmly more on the philosophical rather than the theological side of the balance . I would see him mostly as a bridge between the analytical and the continental approaches to philosophy ( if there really IS an important disjunction between continental and analytic philosophy , Caputo being a case in point ). Whilst I have few postmodern tendencies I find Caputo is usefull as he combines a thorough knowledge of what is thought of as both the traditional strands of analytic and continental philosophy .Especially German idealism and modern French philosophy with their attendant theological implications .<br /><br />Note his work on Kant and Hegel together with his studies of Derrida , Deleuze , balanced against more ' modernist ' Tillich and Altizer '. His strengths are that he remains intelligible to us who prefer a more ' rational ' discourse whilst maintaining that ' postmodernist ' approaches cannot be dismissed too easily .<br /><br />Listening to some of his class sessions may be usefull to those unfamiliar to his style ;<br /><br />http://trippfuller.com/Caputo/<br /><br /><br />Regards .<br /><br /><br /><br />.Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03449188541044487588noreply@blogger.com