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The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion Without Religion (The Indiana Series in the Philosophy of ...

2 reviews
John D. Caputo

Indiana University Press, 1997

A faithful reading is a risky reading . . .
In this exposition of Derrida's recent writings, Caputo continues his work of making the trouble-making tools of deconstruction generally available. The clarity of his presentation is matched by his playfulness. Theme by theme, he teases out the revolutionary possibilities of Derrida's "religion," freeing words and phrases from jargon and obscurity. This book offers the gift of the relevance of ...

After the Death of God (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)

1 review
Gianni Vattimo, John D. Caputo

Columbia University Press, 2007

The modern meaning of the religious faith
I think that it is a very profound dialogue on the true meaning of the faith in a world confused about politics, religion and secolarization.

Philosophy and Theology (Horizons in Theology)

4 reviews
John D. Caputo

Abingdon Press, 2006

An Excellent and Beautiful Little Book
Imagine a book in which Augustine of Hippo and Jaques Derrida are co-cupids, each aiming their arrows at your heart. Only in the hands of Jack Caputo would this be imaginable. This is a lyrical, incredible, impossible gem of a book. Caputo sings, preaches, waxes philosophic and theologic, and ultimately brings us to in the presence of two giants -- Augustine and Derrida -- each at prayer; what ...

The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion)

5 reviews
John D. Caputo

Indiana University Press, 2006

a book that comes just in the nick of time
What a gift of a book, one coming upon us just in the nick of time! Just as fundamentalists of all persuasions--who worship the tiny and pathetic god of power-- have propelled us over the edge and unto unspeakable brutality and grief; here comes the antidote via John Caputo--one of our most trusted and original thinkers. Caputo has simply brought to the forefront what is the most explicit ...

Sleeping Giant Has Awoken: The New Politics of Religion in the United States

2 reviews

Continuum, 2008

Terribly crass title but a great book
Do not be fooled by the crassness of the title: "The Sleeping Giant Has Awoken" by Jeffrey Robbins and Neal Magee (editors) consists of a serious collection of scholarly essays on the influence of religion on U.S. politics. The book's sixteen contributors are academics who bring impressive research and analytical skills to their thoughtful work. By skillfully deconstructing various historical and ...

Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

12 reviews
John Caputo

Fordham University Press, 1996

A very welcome nutshell indeed....
....for Derrida is not easy reading. This fine book takes some of his best concepts and explains them in a clear and witty style. Highly recommended starting point for the beginner to deconstructionist thought.

How to Read Kierkegaard (How to Read)
John D. Caputo

W. W. Norton, 2008

Using excerpts from the major texts to explain essential topics, the How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon.

On Religion (Thinking in Action)

7 reviews
John Caputo

Routledge, 2001

Doing the impossible
I've just finished reading On Religion and thought I'd make use of cyberspace to say how much I enjoyed it. I continue to be part of a formal religion (Christian/Anglican) but constantly wonder why; frustrated and angered by blinkered thinking and knowing that I do not believe-as-fact most (any?) of the 'doctrine'. And yet, and yet.....I know it gives shape to something which is somehow ...

What Would Jesus Deconstruct?: The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church (The Church and Postmodern ...

5 reviews
John D. Caputo

Baker Academic, 2007

Derrida = YAHWEH?
This book is a `gift' in the rigorous Derridian sense. Given time, Caputo's work will do some good work loosing up the rusty sprockets in that old, underused relic known as the Evangelical imagination. With characteristic style, Jack Caputo gives Evangelicaland a smart introduction to `deconstruction.' As fun a read as any other Caputo tablet, it shares with those tables many - by now ...

Graphic Classics, Vol. 2: Arthur Conan Doyle, Second Edition

1 review
Arthur Conan Doyle, Antonella Caputo, ...

Eureka Productions, 2005

New Doyle adaptations in an updated edition
A new edition, "Graphic Classics: Arthur Conan Doyle" is updated and revised, with five new stories adapted in the Graphic Classics style. As with the previous release, several different illustrators adapt and interpret some of Doyle's most famous stories and creations, as well as a few lesser known gems. This second edition is less Sherlock Holmes heavy, containing only two adaptations of ...

Augustine And Postmodernism: Confessions And Circumfession (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion)

Indiana University Press, 2005

At the heart of the current surge of interest in religion among contemporary Continental philosophers stands Augustine's Confessions. With Derrida's Circumfession constantly in the background, this volume takes up the provocative readings of Augustine by Heidegger, Lyotard, Arendt, and Ricoeur. Derrida himself presides over and comments on essays by major Continental philosophers and internationally recognized Augustine scholars. While studies ...

Radical Hermeneutics (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

4 reviews
John D. Caputo

Indiana University Press, 1988

totality and the flux
The central questioning of Radical Hermeneutics revolves around the question of the flux, the contingent, flowing reality that philosophy has traditionally tried to stem/structure and receives explicit attention in the philosophy of Husserl, Parmenides, Kierkegaard, etc. Caputo follows Derrida who follows Levinas in pointing out the totalizing quality of systematic, speculative thought (which ...

McDonaldization Revisited: Critical Essays on Consumer Culture
Mark Alfino, John S. Caputo, ...

Praeger Paperback, 1998

An international, multidisciplinary group of scholars examines the thesis of George Ritzer's popular book The McDonaldization of Society. The essays analyze the premise of "McDonaldization," provide richer theoretical discussions of the relationship between Ritzer's analysis and semiotics, critical theory, feminism, and postmodernism, and extend the thesis to other areas of consumer culture. Aimed at both undergraduate and graduate students, the ...

Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought

1 review
John Caputo

Fordham University Press, 1986

A comparison of Heigegger's later thought to Meister Eckhart
John Caputo investigates the claim of many modern philosphers that Heidegger became a mystic in the latter part of his life. Caputo performs a careful analysis of this claim by looking at the writings of Heidegger as they relate to a true German mystic, Meister Eckhart. Does Heidegger's relationship between being and Being equate to Eckhart's soul and God? Does his use of "Gelassenheit", a ...

In Deference to the Other: Lonergan and Contemporary Continental Thought

State University of New York Press, 2004

Graphic Classics Volume 5: Jack London - 2nd Edition (Graphic Classics (Graphic Novels))

2 reviews
Jack London, Rod Lott, ...

Eureka Productions, 2006

Weird and Wild tales from an American master
Think of Jack London, and the image springs to mind of racing dog packs racing over icy Alaskan landscapes, fighting fang and fur in a primitive struggle for life. On the reading list of almost every American school system, "The Call of the Wild" is a classic of American literature. And there it stops. Aside from "The Call of the Wild," I was totally ignorant of Jack London's works. I never ...

Heidegger and Aquinas: An Essay on Overcoming Metaphysics

2 reviews
John Caputo

Fordham University Press, 1982

A Sympathetic Treatment of Two Thinkers
Caputo masterfully explains the fundamental perspectives of both Aquinas and Heidegger. As a follower of Aquinas, I found his exposition of Aquinas accurate and thorough. Before reading his book, I knew nothing about Heidegger, but I feel that now I have some sort of handle on his thought. Caputo is extraordinarily fair to both philosophers, granting both of them as much latitude as he deems ...

Questioning God (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion)

Indiana University Press, 2001

This volume, based on the second of Villanova's "Religion and Postmodernism" lecture series, brings Jacques Derrida together with an international group of philosophers and theologians, including John Milbank, Graham Ward, Richard Kearney, Kevin Hart, Jean Greisch and others, to discuss questions of forgiveness and God in a post-modern time. In addition to containing the first appearance in print of Derrida's recent work on the topic of ...

God, the Gift, and Postmodernism (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion)

Indiana University Press, 1999

Pushing past the constraints of post modernism 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 ...

More Radical Hermeneutics (Studies in Continental Thought)
John D. Caputo

Indiana University Press, 2000

In these spirited essays, John D. Caputo continues the project he launched with Radical Hermeneutics of building a working relationship between hermeneutics and deconstruction.

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