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John D. Caputo

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Continental Philosophy

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Bachelors Philosophy La Salle University
Masters Philosophy Villanova University
PhD Philosophy Bryn Mawr College

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According to Wikipedia, John David Caputo is an American philosopher who is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus at Syracuse University and the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Villanova University. Caputo is a major figure associated with postmodern Christianity and continental philosophy of religion, as well as the founder of the theological movement known as weak theology. Much of Caputo's work focuses on hermeneutics, phenomenology, deconstruction, and theology.

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The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion without Religion (1997) (523)
Against Ethics: Contributions to a Poetics of Obligation with Constant Reference to Deconstruction (1993) (214)
Eradication/Reification: Or, What's so Radical about Radical Hermeneutics?@@@Radical Hermeneutics: Repetition, Deconstruction, and the Hermeneutic Project (1990) (213)
The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event (2006) (205)
The Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought (1977) (124)
More Radical Hermeneutics: On Not Knowing Who We Are (2000) (121)
Only a God can save Us: Der Spiegel's Interview with Martin Heidegger (1976) (112)
The prayers and tears of Jacques Derrida (1997) (101)
After the Death of God (2007) (82)
God, the Gift, and Postmodernism (1999) (76)
Heidegger and Aquinas: An Essay on Overcoming Metaphysics (1980) (57)
Foucault and the Critique of Institutions (2006) (48)
What Would Jesus Deconstruct?: The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church (2007) (39)
Epoché and faith: An interview with Jacques Derrida (2005) (29)
Modernity and its Discontents (2020) (29)
Heidegger and Aquinas: the Thought of Being and the Metaphysics of Esse (1982) (28)
Heidegger and theology (2006) (28)
Augustine and Postmodernism: Confessions and Circumfession (2005) (25)
How to Read Kierkegaard (2007) (20)
Husserl, Heidegger and the question of a “hermeneutic” phenomenology (1984) (18)
The Insistence of God: A Theology of Perhaps (2013) (16)
Atheism, A/theology, and the Postmodern Condition (2006) (16)
Journey to authenticity (1982) (16)
Beyond Aestheticism: Derrida's Responsible Anarchy (1988) (15)
Fundamental Themes in Meister Eckhart’s Mysticism (2017) (15)
Who is Derrida's Zarathustra? Of Fraternity, Friendship, and a D emo cracy to Come (1999) (15)
Hoping Against Hope: Confessions of a Postmodern Pilgrim (2015) (15)
Heidegger’s Kampf The Difficulty of Life (1991) (13)
The Insistence of God (2013) (12)
Feminism, Sexuality, and the Return of Religion (2011) (12)
Appropriating Heidegger: People of God, people of being: the theological presuppositions of Heidegger's path of thought (2000) (12)
The Villanova Roundtable: (2020) (12)
A Community without Truth: Derrida and the Impossible Community (1996) (12)
Teaching the Event: Deconstruction, Hauntology, and the Scene of Pedagogy (2012) (11)
Religion after Metaphysics: The experience of God and the axiology of the impossible (2003) (11)
St. Paul among the Philosophers (2009) (11)
The weakness of God (2006) (10)
Phenomenology, Mysticism and the “Gramatica Speculativa”: A Study of Heidegger's “Habilitationsschrift” (1974) (10)
Martin Heidegger: The Way and the Vision (1978) (10)
On Not Knowing Who We Are: Madness, Hermeneutics and the Night of Truth in Foucault (2017) (10)
Philosophy and Prophetic Postmodernism: Toward a Catholic Postmodemity (2000) (9)
The Question of Being and Transcendental Phenomenology: Reflections on Heidegger's Relationship to Husserl (1977) (9)
Hermeneutics as the recovery of man (1982) (9)
The Poetics of the Impossible and the Kingdom of God (2007) (8)
The Good News About Alterity: Derrida and Theology (1993) (8)
Being, ground and play in Heidegger (1970) (8)
Postmodernism and the desire for God : An E-mail exchange (1998) (8)
Hoping in hope, hoping against hope: A response (2002) (8)
Hoping Against Hope (2015) (7)
Cross and Cosmos (2019) (7)
Good will and the hermeneutics of friendship: Gadamer and Derrida (2002) (7)
Hyperbolic Justice: Deconstruction, Myth, and Politics (1991) (6)
Transcendence and Beyond: A Postmodern Inquiry (2007) (6)
Heidegger’s Philosophy of Science: The Two Essences of Science (1986) (6)
Education as Event: A Conversation with John D. Caputo (2016) (5)
Supposing Truth To Be A Woman... : Heidegger, Nietzsche, Derrida in The Thought of Martin Heidegger. (1984) (5)
The Nothingness of the Intellect in Meister Eckhart’s “Parisian Questions” (2017) (5)
God, Perhaps: The Diacritical Hermeneutics of God in the Work of Richard Kearney (2011) (5)
Derrida and Our Animal Others (2017) (5)
Continental Philosophy of Religion (2010) (4)
What Do I Love When I Love My God?: Deconstruction and Radical Orthodoxy (2001) (4)
Philosophy and Theology (2006) (4)
Meister Eckhart and the Later Heidegger: The Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought: Part One (1975) (4)
Derrida, a Kind of Philosopher: A Discussion of Recent Literature (1987) (4)
In Deference to the Other: Lonergan and Contemporary Continental Thought (2004) (4)
Bodies Still Unrisen, Events Still Unsaid (2007) (4)
Book Reviews (2007) (3)
METHODOLOGICAL POSTMODERNISM: ON MEROLD WESTPHAL’S OVERCOMING ONTO-THEOLOGY (2005) (3)
The Presence of the Other: A Phenomenology of the Human Person (1979) (3)
Hoping Against Hope: The Possibility of the Impossible (2016) (3)
BEYOND SOVEREIGNTY: Many Nations Under The Weakness of God (2016) (3)
Looking the Impossible in the Eye: Kierkegaard, Derrida, and the Repetition of Religion (2002) (3)
Before Creation: Derrida's Memory of God (2006) (3)
How the secular world became post-secular (2018) (3)
Continental Philosophy of Religion: Then, Now, and Tomorrow (extended version) (2012) (3)
Telling Left from Right: Hermeneutics, Deconstruction, and the Work of Art (1986) (3)
Kant's Refutation of the Cosmological Argument (1974) (3)
Three Transgressions: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida (1985) (3)
Continental Philosophy of Religion: Then, Now, and Tomorrow (2012) (3)
Heidegger's Scandal: Thinking and the Essence of the Victim (1989) (3)
12. Adieu—sans Dieu: Derrida and Levinas (2020) (2)
The difficulty of life: A reply to Ronald H. McKinney (1992) (2)
Theopoetics as Heretical Hegelianism (2014) (2)
Specters of God (2022) (2)
Good Will and the Hermeneutics of Friendship: Gadamer, Derrida, and Madison (2004) (2)
Heidegger’s God and the Lord of History (1983) (2)
The Historical-Ontological Priority of Technology Over Science (2010) (2)
Introduction (2020) (2020) (2)
Hauntological hermeneutics and the interpretation of Christian faith : On being dead equal before god (2005) (2)
Language, Logic, and Time (1973) (2)
Was Heidegger Prescient Concerning Technoscience (2010) (2)
Post-Cartesian Meditations: An Essay in Dialectical Phenomenology (1990) (2)
Richard Kearney's Enthusiasm (2006) (2)
Reason, History, and a Little Madness: Towards a Hermeneutics of Christian Historicality (1994) (2)
In Search of Radical Theology (2020) (2)
The Rose is without Why: the later Heidegger (1971) (2)
What Is Merold Westphal’s Critique of Ontotheology Criticizing? (2009) (2)
Incarnation and Essentialization: A Reading of Heidegger (1991) (2)
Bodies Still Unrisen, Events Still Unsaid: A Hermeneutic of Bodies without Flesh (2009) (2)
Transcendence and the Transcendental in Husserl's Phenomenology (1979) (2)
The Poverty of Thought (2017) (1)
Cosmic grace (2018) (1)
Otobiographies, 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) (2005) (1)
Unprotected Religion: Radical Theology, Radical Atheism, and the Return of Anti- Religion (2020) (1)
Meister Eckhart and the Later Heidegger: The Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought: Part Two (2008) (1)
6 The Time of Giving, the Time of Forgiving (2020) (1)
Horizontal hermenentics and its delimination (1986) (1)
After God. By Mark C. Taylor (2009) (1)
Theopoetics as Radical Theology (2013) (1)
On Germans and Other Greeks (2017) (1)
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy (2020) (1)
THE PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON: A STUDY OF HEIDEGGERIAN SELF-CRITICISM (1975) (1)
Infestations: The Religion of the Death of God and Scott's Ascetic Ideal (1995) (1)
Do Radical Theologians Pray?: A Spirituality of the Event (2021) (1)
REASON, HISTORY, AND A LITTLE MADNESS : Towards an ethics of the kingdom (2002) (1)
Being and beings: (2019) (1)
Deconstructing institutions: A reply to dauenhauer (1991) (1)
Auto-Deconstructing or Constructing a Bridge?: A Reply to Thomas A. F. Kelly (2002) (1)
THINKING, POETRY AND PAIN (1990) (1)
A philosophical propaedeutic: On the very idea of radical hermeneutics (1997) (1)
Heidegger’s “Dif-ference” and the Distinction between Esse and Ens in St. Thomas (1980) (1)
Panentheism and Weak Theology (2022) (1)
Commentary on Ken Schmitz: Postmodernism and the Catholic tradition (1999) (1)
The Theopoetic Reduction: Suspending the Supernatural Signified (2019) (1)
Where Is Richard Kearney Coming From? Hospitality, Anatheism, and Ana-deconstruction (2021) (1)
In Deference to the Other (2004) (1)
Introduction (2020): (2020) (0)
Visiting Speaker Series - Fall 2014 (2015) (0)
Fundamental Ontology and the Ontological Difference in Coreth’s Metaphysics (1977) (0)
8. Metanoetics: Elements of a Postmodem Christian Philosophy (2020) (0)
Horizonal Hermeneutics-and Beyond (1986) (0)
On religion—without religion (2018) (0)
Negative Ecstasies (2020) (0)
Toward the later Heidegger (1982) (0)
Like a Devilish Knight of Faith (2014) (0)
THE SUBJUNCTIVE POWER OF GOD (2020) (0)
On Being Inside/Outside Truth (2020) (0)
Empty Epiphanies in Modernist and Postmodernist Theory (2012) (0)
Heidegger's Technologies One Size Fits All (2010) (0)
The Problem of Being in Heidegger and the Scholastics (2017) (0)
Gadamer and the postmodern mind (2021) (0)
On Religion (2018) (0)
Levinas: The Face of the Other: The Fifteenth Annual Symposium of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center (2006) (0)
The Rigor of a Certain Inhumanity (2017) (0)
Filosofía e Pós-modernismo profético (2004) (0)
Defining risk for recurrent gestational failure by blood natural killer cells subsets (2012) (0)
From the Deconstruction of Hermeneutics to the Hermeneutics of Deconstruction (1988) (0)
On Mystical and Other Phenomena (1989) (0)
Violence and the Unconditional (2019) (0)
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Hearing the Voices of the Dead (2009) (0)
Book reviews (1988) (0)
Transcendence and Beyond (2017) (0)
Histories of Modern Selfhood (2012) (0)
Presidential Address: Radical Hermeneutics and the Human Condition (1988) (0)
Derrida and the Trace of Religion (2015) (0)
Desire of God: an Exchange (2006) (0)
Books Received (2008) (0)
Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness. By Jean-Luc Marion. Translated by Jeffrey L. Kosky. Stanford University Press, 2002. 375 pages. $27.95. (2006) (0)
1. Authored Works (1999) (0)
Books for review and for listing here should be addressed to Emily Zakin, Review Editor, Teaching Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056 (2000) (0)
9.6 'God is not Différance' (2001) (0)
Review: God as Otherwise Than Being: Towards a Semantics of the Gift (2005) (0)
The Gap God Opens (2016) (0)
The Gender of Human Togetherness (2012) (0)
3. Continental Philosophy and American Catholics: Then, Now, and Tomorrow (2020) (0)
Introduction (2020) Specters of Derrida (2020) (0)
Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness (review) (2006) (0)
Heidegger and Aquinas (2020) (0)
A Final Word (Eight Famous Ones) (2020) (0)
Kyiv-Moh yl a Huma nities Journal (2014) (0)
Heidegger: The Critique of Logic (1981) (0)
Putting religion in its place (2018) (0)
Becoming God in Fourteenth-Century Europe (2012) (0)
Metaphysics, Finitude and Kant’s Illusion of Pure Practical Reason (1982) (0)
An American and a liberal: John D. Caputo's response to Michael Zimmerman (1998) (0)
Gadamer at 100 (2002) (0)
THE TEXT AND THE BOOK : RELIGION AND DECONSTRUCTION BOTH TEACH US TO VIEW THE WORLD AS SIGN (2009) (0)
The love of God (2018) (0)
Why is religion so violent? (2018) (0)
The Makings of the Modern Self (2012) (0)
Tears. Mark C. Taylor (1992) (0)
Can there be a religion with religion? (2018) (0)
The Age of Repetition (1994) (0)
Towards an American pragrammatology: A response to Prof. Sallis (1989) (0)
Parisian Questions and Prologues by Master Eckhart (review) (2017) (0)
Heidegger and Derrida: Cold Hermeneutics (1986) (0)
The Trouble with Martin (2018) (0)
Thinking with Faith, Thinking as Faith: What Comes After Onto-theo-logy? (2022) (0)
Mortality and the Foundations of a Phenomenological Ethics (1985) (0)
A Response to Professor Risser (2020) (0)
Unconditional Hospitality – When the Other is not Welcome (2023) (0)
James W. Allard, The Logical Foundations of Bradley's Metaphysics: Judgment, Inference, and Truth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) (2005) (0)
Concluding Postphenomenological Postscript (2010) (0)
Commentary: To Professor Boyle: Prudential Insight and Moral Reasoning (1984) (0)
Heidegger and Religion 3 (2008) (0)
Tradition and Event: Radicalizing the Catholic Principle (2019) (0)
Laughing, Praying, Weeping before God (2006) (0)
Dark Hearts: Heidegger, Richardson, and Evil (1995) (0)
Augustine and Postmodernism (2012) (0)
Let it Blaze, Let it Blaze: Pyrotheology and the Theology of the Event (2016) (0)
Heidegger's Philosophy of Technology (2010) (0)
Time and Being in Heidegger (1973) (0)

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