
John D. Caputo
Author · 24 books
John D. 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, 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.
Series
Books

The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida
Religion Without Religion
1997

After the Death of God
2007

The Folly of God
A Theology of the Unconditional
2015

The Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought
1978

God, the Gift, and Postmodernism
1999

Truth
2013

The Insistence of God
A Theology of Perhaps
2013

Radical Hermeneutics
Repetition, Deconstruction, and the Hermeneutic Project
1987

The Weakness of God
A Theology of the Event
2006

Demythologizing Heidegger
1993

Hoping Against Hope
Confessions of a Postmodern Pilgrim
2015

More Radical Hermeneutics
On Not Knowing Who We Are
2000

Against Ethics
Contributions to a Poetics of Obligation with Constant Reference to Deconstruction
1993

What Would Jesus Deconstruct?
The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church
2007

Deconstruction in a Nutshell
A Conversation with Jacques Derrida, With a New Introduction
1996

The Religious
2001

St. Paul among the Philosophers
2009

How to Read Kierkegaard
2007

Heidegger and Aquinas
An Essay on Overcoming Metaphysics
1982

On Religion
2001

Hermeneutics
Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information
2018

Philosophy and Theology
2006

In Search of Radical Theology
Expositions, Explorations, Exhortations
2020

It Spooks
Living in response to an unheard call
2015