Theodore George and Gert-Jan van der Heidne (a Routledge series Philosophical Minds). John D. Caputo stretches his project as a radical theologian to new limits in this groundbreaking book. In, "Reason, History and a Little Madness: Towards a Hermeneutics of the Kingdom," Proceedings of the, "Sorge and kardia: The Hermeneutics of Factical Life and the Categories of the Heart,", "The Good News About Alterity: Derrida and Theology,", "Heidegger, Kierkegaard and the Foundering of Metaphysics,", "In Search of the Quasi-Transcendental: The Case of Derrida and Rorty,", "On Not Knowing Who We Are: Foucault and the Night of Truth," in, "Meister Eckhart and the Later Heidegger: the Mystical Element in Heidegger’s Thought,” in, "The Poetics of Suffering and the Deconstruction of Ethics,", "How to Avoid Speaking of God: The Violence of Natural Theology," in, "The Difficulty of Life: A Response to Ronald McKinney,", "Heidegger's Scandal: Thinking and the Essence of the Victim," in, "Hyperbolic Justice: Deconstruction, Myth and Politics,", "Deconstructing Institutions: A Reply to Dauenhauer,", "Heidegger's Kampf: The Difficulty of Life,", "Incarnation and Essentialism: A Reading of Heidegger,", "Deconstructing the Rahnerian Bridge: Heidegger and Aquinas,", "Hermeneutics and Faith: A Reply to Prof. Olthuis,", "Radical Hermeneutics and Religious Truth: The Case of Sheehan and Schillebeeckx," in. Jaci Maraschino, "Hyperbolic Justice: Deconstruction, Myth and Politics," in, "The Experience of God and the Axiology of the Impossible," in, "Hauntological Hermeneutics and the Interpretation of Christian Faith: On Being Dead Equal Before God,", "Filosofia e Posmodernismo Profetico," Revista Potuguesa de Filosofia, 60, No. John, welcome to the show. "Loosening Philosophy's Tongue: A Conversation with Jack Caputo," with Carl Raschke, "What Do I Love When I Love My God? Elsewhere: A Response to a Symposium on, “Avant la création: le souvenir de dieu de Derrida,” trans. He has special interests in the "religion without religion" of Jacques Derrida; the "theological turn" taken in recent French phenomenology (Jean-Luc Marion and others); the critique of onto-theology; the question of post-modernism as "post-secularism;" the dialogue of contemporary philosophy with St. Augustine; the recent interest shown by philosophers in St. Paul; the link between Kierkegaard and deconstruction; Heidegger's early theological writings on Paul and Augustine; "secular" and "death of God" theology (Altizer, Vattimo, Zizek); medieval metaphysics and mysticism. 6. He has also addressed wider-than-academic audiences in On Religion and What Would Jesus Deconstruct? In the past, Caputo has taught courses on Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, Gilles Deleuze, and Jacques Derrida. Much … Professor Caputo's The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event (Indiana, 2006) received the 2007 AAR Book Award for "Constructive-Reflective Studies in Religion." Caputo has a special interest in continental approaches to the philosophy of religion. The mark of really loving someone or something is unconditionality and excess, engagement and commitment, fire and passion.” ― John D. Caputo, On … “Apôtres de l'impossible: sur Dieu et le don chez Derrida et Marion,” trans. Part spiritual autobiography, part homily on what he calls the nihilism of grace, Hoping against Hope calls believers and nonbelievers alike to par John D. Caputo has a long career as one of the … John D. Caputo is a hybrid philosopher/theologian intent on producing impure thoughts, thoughts which circulate between philosophy and theology, short-circuits which deny fixed and rigorous boundaries between philosophy and theology. Jochen Schmidt, in, “Temporal Transcendence: The Very Idea of. The Challenge of God Plenary Address: John D. Caputo Challenge of God Plenary Address: John D. Caputo, “Tradition and Event: Radicalizing the Catholic Principle" Watch Video "From Black-Belt Sinner to Sweet Baby Jesus" - The 2016 Cardinal Newman Lecture John D. Caputo I grew up in a culturally Catholic world and was steeped in Greek philosophy and the Catholic middle ages. For a study of Heidegger and Eckhart see my " Meister Eckhart and the Later Heidegger" in two parts in The Journal of the History of Philosophy XII, 4 (October. Largely influenced by the deconstructionist work of Jacques Derrida, Caputo is as a major figure in post-modern Christianity who has developed a theory of interpretation referred to as "radical hermeneutics" and the distinctive approach to religion known as "weak theology." ", Australian National Radio, "The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida.". pp. John D. Caputo In Gregory P. Floyd & Stephanie Rumpza (eds. An Interview with John D. Caputo," in Religion With/out Religion: The Prayers and Tears of John D. Caputo , ed. This includes a series of studies of my work, my responses, and a interview conducted by Mark Dooley with Jacques Derrida about my interpretation of the religious element in Derrida's work. John David Caputo (born October 26, 1940) 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. Over the years, he has developed a deconstructive hermeneutics that he calls radical hermeneutics, which is highly influenced by the thought of the French philosopher, Jacques Derrida. John David Caputo (born October 26, 1940) 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. BBC, World Report, May, 2001, "Is Star Wars a Religion? Religion With/out Religion: The Prayers and Tears of John D. Caputo ed. Jacques Derrida and Gianni Vattimo in, "Feature Review of James Marsh, Post-Cartesian Meditations,", "Horizontal Hermeneutics and Beyond: Nicholson's Seeing and Reading,", "Horizonal Hermeneutics and It Delimitation" (Symposium on Nicholson's Seeing and Reading),", "Morality and the Foundations of a Phenomenological Ethics,", "Language, Logic, and Time: Heidegger's Frühe Schriften,". Patrick Dimascio, in, “Die Tränen und Gebete einer diabolishen Hermeneutic: Derrida und Meister Eckhart,” trans. 5. The Adventure of Weak Theology: Reading the Work of John D. Caputo through Biographies and Events (SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought) [Štofaník, Štefan, Caputo, John D.] on Amazon.com. Truth John D. Caputo (London: Penguin Books, 2013). Additionally, Caputo has developed a distinctive approach to religion that he calls weak theology. 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