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52The 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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64God, 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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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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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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17What is Merold Westphal's critique of ontotheology criticizing?In B. Keith Putt (ed.), Gazing through a prism darkly: reflections on Merold Westphal's hermeneutical epistemology, Fordham University Press. 2009.This chapter talks about Merold Westphal's views on ontotheology and the philosophy of transcendence, and how they are interrogated as criticizing. It starts by defining what ontotheology is, and then widens its scope through its critique.
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20Radical Hermeneutics: Repetition, Deconstruction, and the Hermeneutic ProjectPhilosophy Today 30 (4): 271-277. 1986.
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58Demythologizing 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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82The question of being and transcendental phenomenology: Reflections on Heidegger's relationship to HusserlResearch in Phenomenology 7 (1): 84-105. 1977.
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16Good Will and the Hermeneutics of Friendship: Gadamer, Derrida, and MadisonSymposium 8 (2): 213-225. 2004.
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73More Radical Hermeneutics: On Not Knowing Who We AreIndiana University Press. 2000.In these spirited essays, John D. Caputo continues the project he launched with Radical Hermeneutics of making hermeneutics and deconstruction work together.
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15A community without truth: Derrida and the impossible community: Reason and communityResearch in Phenomenology 26 (1): 25-37. 1996.
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1The Nothingness of the Intellect in Meister Eckhart's" Parisian QuestionsThe Thomist 39 (1): 85-115. 1975.
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Mysticism and Transgression: Derrida and Meister EckhartIn Hugh J. Silverman (ed.), Derrida and deconstruction, Routledge. pp. 24--39. 1989.
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Aparté: Conceptions and Deaths of Søren KierkegaardInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 29 (2): 113-122. 1991.
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26The difficulty of life: A reply to Ronald H. McKinney (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 26 (4): 561-564. 1992.
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From the Primordiality of Absence to the Absence of Primordiality: Heidegger's Critique of DerridaIn Hugh J. Silverman & Don Ihde (eds.), Hermeneutics & Deconstruction, State University of New York Press. pp. 191--200. 1985.
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42Otobiographies, or how a torn and disembodied ear hears a promise of death (a prearranged meeting between Yvonne Sherwood and John D. Caputo and the book of Amos and Jacques derrida)In Yvonne Sherwood & Kevin Hart (eds.), Derrida and religion: other testaments, Routledge. 2005.No abstract available
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38The Thought of Being and the Conversation of Mankind: The Case of Heidegger and RortyReview of Metaphysics 36 (3). 1983.ALTHOUGH hailed as a sign of a thaw in the cold war between Anglo-American and continental philosophy, Richard Rorty's beguiling appropriation of the thought of Heidegger in his recent writings has produced no small measure of confusion. How seriously, one wonders, has Rorty moved towards Heidegger? Or contrariwise, just how close does Heidegger come to saying the sorts of things Rorty does? Is Rorty just trying to shock the Anglo-American community by invoking the name of Heidegger? Is he being…Read more
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18Heidegger’s Kampf The Difficulty of LifeGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 14 (2-1): 61-83. 1991.
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ReligieRoutledge. 2002.In dit stimulerende en diepgravende boek onderzoekt John D. Caputo het religieuze denken. Tijdens dit onderzoek komen fascinerende vragen aan de orde: 'Wat heb ik lief als ik God liefheb?' en 'Wat heeft Star Wars ons te zeggen over de huidige beleving van religie?' (proberen we altijd een manier te vinden om te zeggen: 'God zij met je'?) Waarom betekent religie voor zoveel mensen een moreel houvast in een postmoderne, nihilistische tijd? Is het mogelijk om 'religie zonder religie' te hebben? Via…Read more
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73Continental Philosophy of Religion: Then, Now, and the TomorrowJournal of Speculative Philosophy 26 (2): 347-360. 2012.
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
20th Century Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |