More Radical Hermeneutics: On Not Knowing Who We Are

Front Cover
Indiana University Press, Jul 22, 2000 - Literary Criticism - 296 pages

In these spirited essays, John D. Caputo continues the project he launched with Radical Hermeneutics of making hermeneutics and deconstruction work together. Caputo claims that we are not born into this world hard-wired to know Being, Truth, or the Good, and we are not vessels of a Divine or other omnipotent supernatural force. Focusing on how various contemporary philosophers develop aspects of this fragmented view of the life world in areas such as madness, friendship, democracy, gender, science, the "end of ethics," religion, and mysticism, this animated study by one of America's leading continental philosophers shakes the foundations of religion and philosophy, even as it gives them new life.

 

Selected pages

Contents

On Not Knowing Who We
5
Madness Hermeneutics and the Night of Truth in Foucault
17
How to Prepare for the Coming of the Other
41
Who Is Derridas Zarathustra?
60
Parisian Hermeneutics and Yankee Hermeneutics
84
Dreaming of the Innumerable
127
Hermeneutics and the Natural Sciences
151
Holy Hermeneutics versus Devilish Hermeneutics
193
Undecidability and the Empty Tomb
220
The Prayers and Tears of Devilish Hermeneutics
249
Conclusion without Conclusion
265
INDEX
291
Copyright

Other editions - View all

More Radical Hermeneutics: On Not Knowing who We are
John D. Caputo
No preview available - 2000

Common terms and phrases

affirmation Blanchot calls Caputo Christian claim coming concept Cornell Cornell's critical deconstruction democracy devilish hermeneutics différance difference disciples discourse divine dream Edmund Husserl Emmanuel Levinas end of ethics factical faith father finitude Foucault Gadamer Gadamer's gender gift Glas Hans-Georg Gadamer Heidegger Heidegger's hereafter cited herme historical horizon human Husserl idea infinite infinity interpretation Jacques Derrida Jesus justice language Levinas madness Madness and Civilization Martin Heidegger means Meister Eckhart messianic metaphysics Michel Foucault mystical natural attitude neutics never Nietzsche night of truth non-knowing notion Peggy Kamuf philosophical phronesis play possible pray prayer present quasi-transcendental question radical hermeneutics reading religion Richard Rorty Rorty Rorty's Schillebeeckx scientific sense sexual Sheehan silence Simon singular Søren Kierkegaard speak story structure theory things tion tout autre tradition trans transcendental truth undecidability understanding University Press woman women word writing Yeshua Zarathustra

References to this book

About the author (2000)

Academician John D. Caputo (b.1940) specializes in continental philosophy, described as the interaction among 20th century French and German philosophy and religion. He has written a number of scholarly books including The Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought (1978), Heidegger and Aquinas (1982), Demythologizing Heidegger (1993), Against Ethics (1993), and The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida (1997). Caputo has been honored in Dublin and Toronto, where conferences have been organized around his work. Caputo is professor of philosophy at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, where he received his M.A. in 1964. Other degrees include a B.A. from LaSalle College (1962) and a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr (1968).

Bibliographic information

TitleMore Radical Hermeneutics: On Not Knowing Who We Are
Studies in Continental Thought
AuthorJohn D. Caputo
PublisherIndiana University Press, 2000
ISBN0253213878, 9780253213877
Length296 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Literary Criticism / General
Philosophy / Epistemology
Philosophy / Hermeneutics
Philosophy / Movements / Deconstruction
Philosophy / Movements / Phenomenology
Philosophy / Religious
Religion / General
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan