Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Hyper-Realism?

The religious heart or frame of mind is not "realist" because it is not satisfied with the reality that is all around it. Nor is it antirealist, because it is not trying to substitute fabrications for reality; rather, it is what I would call "hyper-realist," in search of the real beyond the real, the hyper, the uber or au-dela, the beyond, in search of the event that stirs within things that will exceed our present horizons.

From What Would Jesus Deconstruct Chapter 2 Spiritual Journeys , Postmodern Paths

Ran across this while eating breakfast at a local truckstop yesterday morning and it is in keeping with the topic of the previous post on "realism". I'm not sure I know what John Caputo means here by the hyper-real. But I think we want to move beyond our everyday notions and prejudices of what we think that the "real" is.

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