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8The Role and Responsibility of the Moral PhilosopherProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 56 87-94. 1982.
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17Presidential Address: Radical Hermeneutics and the Human ConditionProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 62 2-14. 1988.
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32Commentary: To Professor BoyleProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 58 50-55. 1984.
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28The Presence of the OtherProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 53 (n/a): 45-58. 1979.
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10Fundamental Ontology and the Ontological Difference in Coreth’s MetaphysicsProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 51 (n/a): 28-35. 1977.
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Being and the mystery of the personIn W. Norris Clarke & Gerald A. McCool (eds.), The Universe as journey: conversations with W. Norris Clarke, S.J, Fordham University Press. 1988.
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2Commentary: To Professor BoyleProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 58 50-55. 1984.
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51Transcendence and the Transcendental in Husserl's PhenomenologyPhilosophy Today 23 (3): 205-216. 1979.The author attempts to isolate the defining characteristic of the distinction between the transcendental and the transcendent in husserl and argues that it is found, Not in husserl's notion of reflection, But in his theory of constitution. Reflection is shown to be compatible with a transcendent interpretation of consciousness. Finally, Heidegger's phenomenology is shown to have rejected pure reflection but to have incorporated, Mutatis mutandi, A version of constitution
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36Mortality and the foundations of a phenomenological ethicsResearch in Phenomenology 15 (1): 269-278. 1985.
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56Epoché and faith: An interview with Jacques DerridaIn Yvonne Sherwood & Kevin Hart (eds.), Derrida and religion: other testaments, Routledge. 2005.No abstract available
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47Modernity and its discontents (edited book)Fordham University Press. 1992.The introduction by Merold Westphal sets the scene: "Two books, two visions of philosophy, two friends and sometimes colleagues...". Modernity and Its Discontents is a debate between Caputo and Marsh in which each upheld their opposing philosphical positions by critical modernism and post-modernism. The book opens with a critique of each debater of the other's previous work. With its passionate point-counterpoint form, the book recalls the philosphical dialogues of classical times, but the writi…Read more
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11How to read KierkegaardW. W. Norton & Co.. 2007.Introduction -- The truth that is true for me -- Aestheticism -- The ethical -- The knight of faith -- Truth is subjectivity -- Pseudonymity -- The present age -- Love -- The self -- World-weariness.
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17St. Paul Among the Philosophers (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2009.In his epistles, St. Paul sounded a universalism that has recently been taken up by secular philosophers who do not share his belief in Christ, but who regard his project as centrally important for contemporary political life. The Pauline project—as they see it—is the universality of truth, the conviction that what is true is true for everyone, and that the truth should be known by everyone. In this volume, eminent New Testament scholars, historians, and philosophers debate whether Paul's promis…Read more
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29Commentary on Ken Schmitz; “Postmodernism and the Catholic Tradition”American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 73 (2): 253-259. 1999.
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142Three transgressions: Nietzsche, Heidegger, DerridaResearch in Phenomenology 15 (1): 61-78. 1985.Nietzsche, Heidegger and Derrida: these are not merely the names of three authors, but of three matters for thought, of three ways beyond metaphysics, three transgressions. I want to offer here a reflection, first, upon the dynamics of these transgressions—how each conceives metaphysics and where each makes its move against metaphysics—and, then, upon the relationships of the three to one another, on the interplay of their transgressive practices.
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51Hyperbolic justice: Deconstruction, myth, and politicsResearch in Phenomenology 21 (1): 3-20. 1991.
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31Questioning God (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2001.In 15 insightful essays, Jacques Derrida and an international group of scholars of religion explore postmodern thinking about God and consider the nature of forgiveness in relation to the paradoxes of the gift. Among the themes addressed by contributors are the possibilities of imagining God as unthinkable, imagining God as non-patriarchal, imagining a return to Augustine, and imagining an age in which praise is far more important than narrative. Questioning God moves readers beyond the paramete…Read more
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29On ReligionRoutledge. 2001.John D. Caputo explores the very roots of religious thinking in this thought-provoking book. Compelling questions come up along the way: 'What do I love when I love my God?' and 'What can Star Wars tell us about the contemporary use of religion?' Why is religion for many a source of moral guidance in a postmodern, nihilistic age? Is it possible to have 'religion without religion'? Drawing on contemporary images of religion, such as Robert Duvall's film _The Apostle_, Caputo also provides some fa…Read more
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41Auto-Deconstructing or Constructing a Bridge?: A Reply to Thomas A. F. KellyAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 76 (2): 341-344. 2002.
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41The Insistence of God: A Theology of PerhapsIndiana University Press. 2013.The Insistence of God presents the provocative idea that God does not exist, God insists, while God’s existence is a human responsibility, which may or may not happen. For John D. Caputo, God’s existence is haunted by "perhaps," which does not signify indecisiveness but an openness to risk, to the unforeseeable. Perhaps constitutes a theology of what is to come and what we cannot see coming. Responding to current critics of continental philosophy, Caputo explores the materiality of perhaps and t…Read more
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62God, the Gift, and Postmodernism (edited book)Indiana University Press. 1999.Pushing past the constraints of postmodernism which cast "reason" and"religion" in opposition, God, the Gift, and Postmodernism, seizes the opportunity to question the authority of "the modern" and open the limits of possible experience, including the call to religious experience, as a new millennium approaches. Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, engages with Jean-Luc Marion and other religious philosophers to entertain questions about intention, givenness, and possibility which reve…Read more
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35Meister Eckhart and the Later Heidegger: The Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought: Part TwoJournal of the History of Philosophy 13 (1): 61. 1975.
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22Filosofia e Pós-modernismo Profético: Para uma Pós-modernidade CatólicaRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 60 (4). 2004.A pós-modernidade sublinha o papel produtivo da diferença, em oposição à predilecção "moderna" ou do Iluminismo pela universalidade, comunalidade, consenso, bem como por aquilo que os modernos chamam "racionalidade". Segundo o autor do artigo, existem duas variedades distintas desta filosofia da diferença, dependendo de qual predecessor do século XIX – Nietzsche ou Kierkegaard – se prefere, de modo que o artigo distingue entre um pós-modernismo "dionisíaco" e outro de carácter mais "profético". …Read more
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11Journey to Authenticity. Review of "Eclipse of the Self: The Development of Heidegger's Concept of Authenticity" by Michael Zimmerman (review)Research in Phenomenology 12 (1): 235. 1982.
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59Demythologizing Heidegger: Alëtheia and the History of BeingReview of Metaphysics 41 (3). 1988.HEIDEGGER COULD NEVER RESIST A GOOD STORY. He could never resist giving what he had discovered about alëtheia and the oblivion of Being a narrative form. In Being and Time we were promised a story--which was to be written backwards--of the "destruction of the history of ontology." Beginning at the end, with Kant, it was to feel its way back through the tradition in a deconstructive gesture, looking for what had all along been blocking the discovery of the temporal meaning of Being which had at l…Read more
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