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17Towards an American pragrammatology: A response to Prof. Sallis (review)Man and World 22 (2): 257-259. 1989.
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7Foucault and the Critique of Institutions (edited book)Pennsylvania State University Press. 1993.The issue of the institution is not addressed systematically anywhere in the literature on Foucault, although it is everywhere to be found in Foucault's writings._ Foucault and the Critique of Institutions_ not only interprets the work of Foucault but also applies it to the question of the institution. Foucault is a master at analyzing the web of social relations that effectively shape the modern individual. While these social relations are smaller and finer than institutions, institutions are, …Read more
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78Radical Hermeneutics: Repetition, Deconstruction, and the Hermeneutic ProjectIndiana University Press. 1986."This is a remarkable book: wide-ranging, resonant, and well-written; it is also reflective and personable, warm and engaging." —Philosophy and Literature "With this book Caputo takes his place firmly as the foremost American, continental post-modernist... " —International Philosophical Quarterly "One cannot but be impressed by the scope of Radical Hermeneutics." —Man and World "Caputo’s study is stunning in its scope and scholarship." —Robert E. Lauder, St. John’s University, The Thomist For Jo…Read more
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65Demythologizing HeideggerIndiana University Press. 1993.This book calls for a distinction between dangerous, elitist, hierarchizing myths such as Heidegger's and salutary, liberative, empowering myths that foster the humility of justice.
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96Who is Derrida's zarathustra? Of fraternity, friendship, and a D emo cracy to comeResearch in Phenomenology 29 (1): 184-198. 1999.
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Presidential Address: Radical Hermeneutics and the Human ConditionProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 62 2-14. 1988.
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7The Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Study of Heideggerian Self‐CriticismSouthern Journal of Philosophy 13 (4): 419-426. 1975.
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53Husserl, Heidegger, and the question of a "hermeneutic" phenomenologyIn Joseph J. Kockelmans (ed.), Husserl Studies, Center For Advanced Research in Phenomenology and University Press of America. pp. 157-178. 1986.
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58Reply to Jack CaputoFaith and Philosophy 22 (3): 297-300. 2005.I first thank Jack Caputo for his superb summary of my position, then call attention to sin as an epistemological category in Aquinas, the (largely undeveloped) resource for a Pauline hermeneutics of suspicion. There follow clarifications of my understanding of Derrida‘s atheism and of my suggestion that he is a natural law theorist. Finally, I argue that my own position of a faith that cannot convert itself into sight a) places no a priori constraints on what we can say about God, however tradi…Read more
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103A community without truth: Derrida and the impossible communityResearch in Phenomenology 26 (1): 25-37. 1996.
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35Mortality and the foundations of a phenomenological ethicsResearch in Phenomenology 15 (1): 269-278. 1985.
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49Transcendence 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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10How 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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18St. 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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54Epoché 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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46Modernity 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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50Hyperbolic justice: Deconstruction, myth, and politicsResearch in Phenomenology 21 (1): 3-20. 1991.
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33Questioning 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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28Commentary on Ken Schmitz; “Postmodernism and the Catholic Tradition”American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 73 (2): 253-259. 1999.
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139Three 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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63On 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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40Auto-Deconstructing or Constructing a Bridge?: A Reply to Thomas A. F. KellyAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 76 (2): 341-344. 2002.
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92Meister 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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