Essential Caputo

B. Keith Putt is Professor of Philosophy at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He is editor (with Clayton Crockett and Jeffrey W. Robbins) of The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion (IUP). John D. Caputo is Thomas J. Watson Professor Emeritus of Religion and Humanities at Syracuse University and the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Villanova University. He is author of many books, including The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event (IUP), The Insistence of God: A Theology of Perhaps (IUP), Hoping Against Hope: Confessions of a Postmodern Pilgrim, and Truth: Philosophy in Transit.

[Putt's] organization of the material in this Caputo reader, along with his excellent introductory essay, does a very good job of presenting the scope, trajectory and significance of Caputo's work in hermeneutics, ethics, philosophy, and theology. (Reading Religion)

• AcknowledgmentsPart One. Radical Hermeneutics: Reflections1. The Repetition of Sacred Anarchy: Risking a Reading of Radical Hermeneutics / B. Keith Putt2. From Sacred Anarchy to Political Theology: An Interview with John D. Caputo / Clayton Crockett3. The Becoming Possible of the Impossible: An Interview with Jacques Derrida / Mark DooleyPart Two. Radical Hermeneutics: Selections1 Pious Hermeneutics: From Aquinas to Heidegger4. Meister Eckhart and the Later Heidegger: The Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought, Part One5. Meister Eckhart and the Later Heidegger: The Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought,Part Two6. Heidegger's "Dif-ference" and the Distinction Between Esse and Ens in St. Thomas7. Demythologizing Heidegger: Alētheia and the History of Being2 Cold Hermeneutics: From Phenomenology to Deconstruction8. Hermeneutics as the Recovery of Man9. Heidegger and Derrida: Cold Hermeneutics10. On Not Knowing Who We Are: Madness, Hermeneutics, and the Night of Truth in Foucault11. Beyond Aestheticism: Derrida's Responsible Anarchy12. On Not Circumventing the/Quasi-Transcendental: The Case of Rorty and Derrida3 Devilish Hermeneutics: From Augustine to Derrida13. Shedding Tears Beyond Being: Derrida's Confession of Prayer14. The Good News About Alterity: Derrida and Theology15. The Gift16. Toward a Postmodern Theology of the Cross: Augustine, Heidegger, Derrida17. Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)4 Impossible Hermeneutics: From Sacred Anarchy to Radical Theology18. Sacred Anarchy: Fragments of a Postmodern Ethics19. In Search of a Sacred Anarchy: An Experiment in Danish Deconstruction20. The Experience of God and the Axiology of the Impossible21. Without Sovereignty, Without Being: Unconditionality, the Coming God, and Derrida's Democracy to Come22. "Lazarus, Come Out": Rebirth and Resurrection23. A Prayer for the Impossible: A Catechumen's Guide to Deconstruction24. God, Perhaps: The Fear of One Small WordIndex