John D Caputo

Biographic Data

ID1218599
NAMEJohn D Caputo
GIVEN NAMESJohn D
FAMILY NAMECaputo
SIGNATURECAPUTO J D
AFFILIATIONSVillanova University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS23
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • A Philosophy of Prayer: Nothingness, Language, and Hope

    George Pattison, John D CaputoBOOKPhilosophy of Prayer2024

    The book offers an exploration of prayer within the perspective of post-Kantian philosophy. Against a background of traditional sources, including Augustine, The Cloud of Unknowing, and the seventeenth-century French School of spirituality, the book uses Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Heidegger, Berdyaev, Tillich, Marcel, Simone Weil, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean-Louis Chrétien to provide an interpretation of what is meant by the passivit…

  • Panentheism and Weak Theology

    John D CaputoARTICLEModern Believing2022

    Panentheism represents important progress in the history of the weakening of God, breaking the grip of the ens supremum which has long defined theism, but it requires another step, a further weakening, into a theology of the event, which is weak theology. This thesis is argued in two steps: weakening the supreme being into the ground of being (from theism to panentheism) and weakening the ground of being into the event (from panentheism to weak t…

  • Thinking with Faith, Thinking as Faith: What Comes After Onto-theo-logy

    Open AccessJohn D CaputoARTICLEOpen Theology2022

    Despite Heidegger’s constant claims to the contrary, thinking is not opposed to faith. Indeed, against his own intentions, Heidegger’s critique of onto-theo-logy, which breaks the grip of modernity, issues in a faith more radically conceived. This faith is the thinking, this thinking is the faith that becomes possible in the post-secular space which Heidegger’s critique of modernity opens. Although the great medieval theologians like Augustine an…

  • Where Is Richard Kearney Coming From? Hospitality, Anatheism, and Ana-deconstruction

    Open AccessJohn D CaputoARTICLEPhilosophy & Social Criticism2021

    After reviewing the recent publications of Richard Kearney, appearing between 2017 and 2021, including an anthology of his essential writings over his career, and covering topics such as hospitality, God, religion, anatheism, theopoetics, hermeneutics, and touch, there follows a critical engagement with Kearney's work, one that sets out in particular how, despite the very considerable overlap in our work, as fellow travelers in continental philos…

  • Do Radical Theologians Pray: A Spirituality of the Event

    Open AccessJohn D CaputoARTICLEReligions2021References: 7

    Radical theology is not only an academic inquiry but also a radical spirituality. This point is confirmed in the phenomenology of radical prayer found in Derrida's "Circumfession". Derrida's prayer takes place in a theopoetic space opened by a theopoetic epoche, which suspends both the supernatural signified (supernaturalism, praying to a Supreme Being) and the transcendental signified (rationalism, reducing prayer to a subjective fantasy). Radic…

  • Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida, With a New Introduction

    Jacques Derrida, John D CaputoBOOKDeconstruction in a Nutshell2020

  • Modernity and its Discontents

    James L Marsh, John D CaputoBOOKModernity and its Discontents2020

    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 philos…

  • Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida, With a New Introduction

    Jacques Derrida, John D CaputoBOOKDeconstruction in a Nutshell2020

    This volume, now with a substantial new Introduction, represents one of the most lucid, compact and reliable introductions to Derrida and deconstruction available in any language. Responding to questions put to him at a roundtable held at Villanova University in 1994, Jacques Derrida leads the reader through an illuminating discussion of the central themes of deconstruction. Speaking in English and extemporaneously, Derrida takes up such topics a…

  • On Religion

    John D Caputo, John CaputoBOOKOn Religion2018

    In a thoroughly updated second edition of his popular and engaging book, John D. Caputo revisits Augustine’s ancient question "what do I love when I love my God?" and presses it into service in the post-modern world. Accessible but without compromising the big ideas, he raises the question of what religion means today in the face of widespread religious violence after 9/11, of spreading secularization, the dazzling discoveries of contemporary cos…

  • Like a Devilish Knight of Faith

    Open AccessJohn D CaputoARTICLEOxford Literary Review2014

    He had the devil in his eye and he knew it. It was no small part of his enormous charm. If you are going to spend your whole life saying ‘come’ to the coming of what you cannot see coming, it helps to have the devil in your eye. It also struck me as a rich theological trope—a theology with the devil in its eye, a bedeviling theology—and it gave me one of the best ideas I have ever had. A series of conferences in which we would bring him together …

  • On Religion

    John Caputo, Caputo J Staff et al.BOOKOn Religion2013

    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?' (are we always trying to find a way of saying 'God be with you'?) Why is religion for many a source of moral guidance in a postmodern, nihilistic age? Is it possible to have 'religion without religion'?D…

  • Dieu, peut-être: Esquisses d'un Dieu à venir et d'une nouvelle espèce de théologiens

    John D Caputo, Corine LaidetARTICLELes Temps Modernes2012

  • Bodies Still Unrisen, Events Still Unsaid

    John D CaputoARTICLEAngelaki2007

    In what follows, I identify the apophatic element in the body by way of a distinction between bodies and the events harbored by bodies, and by taking the phenomenon of the “risen body” in the New T

  • There Are No Truths, Only Texts

    Open AccessJohn D CaputoARTICLEArc The Journal of the School of…2003

    he statement we have taken as our theme for today's discussion is JL either false, if "texts" is taken literally to mean the written word, books and articles, say, or incoherent, if "texts" is understood in a more sophisticated sense of "textuality" in post-structuralist philoso phy, since truth and falsity are functions of what is meant by textual ity.I simply dismiss the first sense and concentrate on the second sense.I presume that the backgro…

  • Apôtres de l'impossible: Sur Dieu et le don chez Derrida et Marion

    John D Caputo, Sophie-Jan ArrienARTICLEPhilosophie2003

    Cet article examine les changements idéologiques qui touchent le statut social des femmes, en particulier la maternité et la sexualité. Il analyse la pluralisation des féminismes en articulation avec les mobilisations actuelles contre les violences sexuelles et montre les injonctions paradoxales qui s’exercent sur les femmes. Dans une perspective épistémologique il relie ces évolutions à des mutations conceptuelles significatives qui s’observent …

  • Good will and the hermeneutics of friendship: Gadamer and Derrida

    Open AccessJohn D Caputo, John CaputoARTICLEPhilosophy & Social Criticism2002Cited by: 1

  • God, the Gift, and Postmodernism

    John Caputo, Apology for the Impossible: Religion et al.BOOKGod, the Gift, and Postmodernism1999

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  • Who is Derrida's Zarathustra? Of Fraternity, Friendship, and a D emo cracy to Come

    John D CaputoARTICLEResearch in Phenomenology1999

  • An American and a liberal: John D. Caputo's response to Michael Zimmerman

    Open AccessJohn D CaputoARTICLEMan and World1998

  • The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion without Religion

    John D CaputoBOOKPrayers and Tears of Jacques…1997

  • Against Ethics: Contributions to a Poetics of Obligation with Constant Reference to Deconstruction

    John D CaputoBOOKAgainst Ethics1993

  • The difficulty of life: A reply to Ronald H. McKinney

    Open AccessJohn D CaputoARTICLEThe Journal of Value Inquiry1992

  • Tears . Mark C. Taylor

    John D CaputoARTICLEThe Journal of Religion1992

  • Deconstructing institutions: A reply to dauenhauer

    Open AccessJohn D CaputoARTICLEHuman Studies1991Cited by: 1References: 2

  • Heidegger’s Kampf The Difficulty of Life

    John D CaputoARTICLEGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal1991Cited by: 2