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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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53The 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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51Hauntological Hermeneutics and the Interpretation of Christian FaithAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 79 (2): 291-311. 2005.Using Kierkegaard’s Works of Love, I advocate a theory of interpretation as a conversation with the dead, of the same sort Kierkegaard was practicing in the last discourse of his book. I do not mean reading the works of dead white European males, but looking at things from the perspective of the grave where, as Kierkegaard says, we are all equal before God. I will maintain that the creative conflict of interpretations arises from the ambiguity of this conversation, from the difficulty we have in…Read more
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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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50Hyperbolic justice: Deconstruction, myth, and politicsResearch in Phenomenology 21 (1): 3-20. 1991.
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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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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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41The Religious (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2001._The Religious_ offers landmark texts from Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, and Irigaray, excerpts from the famous debate between Jean-Luc Marion and Dominique Janicaud, and ten original selections, some of which include coverage of feminist theology
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41Abromeit, John. Max Horkheimer and the Foundations of the Frankfurt School. Cambridge-New York: Cam-bridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xiii+ 441. Cloth, $95.00. Acosta, Emiliano. Schiller versus Fichte: Schillers Begriff der Person in der Zeit und Fichtes Kategorie der Wech-selbestimmung im Widerstreit. Fichte Studien Supplementa, Band 27. Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2011. Pp. x+ 302. Paper, $87.00 (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 50 (2): 305-307. 2012.
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40After the Death of GodColumbia University Press. 2007.In these original essays and interviews, leading hermeneutical philosophers and postmodern theorists John D. Caputo and Gianni Vattimo engage with each other's past and present work on the subject and reflect on our transition from ...
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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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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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37Reason, History, and a Little MadnessProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 68 (n/a): 27-44. 1994.
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36Heidegger and Aquinas: the Thought of Being and the Metaphysics of EssePhilosophy Today 26 (3): 194-203. 1982.
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35Mortality and the foundations of a phenomenological ethicsResearch in Phenomenology 15 (1): 269-278. 1985.
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34Philosophy and Prophetic PostmodernismAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 74 (4): 549-567. 2000.
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33Feminism, Sexuality, and the Return of Religion (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2011.Feminist theory and reflections on sexuality and gender rarely make contact with contemporary continental philosophy of religion. Where they all come together, creative and transformative thinking occurs. In Feminism, Sexuality, and the Return of Religion, internationally recognized scholars tackle complicated questions provoked by the often stormy intersection of these powerful forces. The essays in this book break down barriers as they extend the richness of each philosophical tradition. They …Read more
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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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32Commentary: To Professor BoyleProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 58 50-55. 1984.
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31Heidegger’s “Dif-ference” and the Distinction between Esse and Ens in St. ThomasInternational Philosophical Quarterly 20 (2): 161-181. 1980.
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30Apôtres de l'impossible : sur Dieu et le don chez Derrida et MarionPhilosophie 78 (3): 33-51. 2003.
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
20th Century Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |