The following is a bibliography of John D. Caputo's works.The majority of entries in this bibliography are sourced from Syracuse University. John D. Caputo, Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities. Retrieved 13 September 2012. Caputo (born October 26, 1940) is an American philosopher closely associated with postmodern Christianity.
Books by Caputo (1978) The Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought (Ohio University Press) (1982) Heidegger and Aquinas (Fordham University Press) (1986) The Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought (Fordham University Press paperback with a new "Introduction") (1987) Radical Hermeneutics: Repetition, Deconstruction and the Hermeneutic Project (Indiana University Press) (1993) Against Ethics - Contributions to a Poetics of Obligation with Constant Reference to Deconstruction (Indiana University Press) (1993) Demythologizing Heidegger (Indiana University Press) (1997) The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida (Indiana University Press) (1997) Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida, ed./auth. (Fordham University Press) (2000) More Radical Hermeneutics: On Not Knowing Who We Are (Indiana University Press) (2001) On Religion (Routledge Press) (2006) Philosophy and Theology (Abingdon Press) (2006) The Weakness of God (Indiana University Press) (2007) After the Death of God, with Gianni Vattimo (Columbia University Press) (2007) How to Read Kierkegaard (Granta; Norton, 2008) (2007) What Would Jesus Deconstruct?: The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church (Baker Academic) (2013) The Insistence of God: A Theology of Perhaps (Indiana University Press) (2014) Truth (Penguin) (2015) Hoping Against Hope: Confessions of a Postmodern Pilgrim (Fortress Press) (2015) The Folly of God: A Theology of the Unconditional (Polebridge Press) (2017) Hoping Against Hope: Confessions of a Modern Pilgrim (Fortress Press) (2018) Hermeneutics: Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information (Pelican) (2018) The Essential Caputo: Selected Writings, ed. Keith Putt (Indiana University Press) (2019) On Religion 2nd Edition (Routledge) (2019) Cross and Cosmos: A Theology of Difficult Glory (Indiana University Press) (2020) In Search of Radical Theology: Expositions, Explorations, Exhortations (Fordham University Press) (2021) The Collected Philosophical and Theological Papers, Volume 3 [1997-2000]: The Return of Religion, ed. Eric Weislogel (John D. Caputo Archives) (2022) The Collected Philosophical and Theological Papers, Volume 1 [1969-1985]: Aquinas, Eckhart, Heidegger: Metaphysics, Mysticism, Thought, ed. Eric Weislogel (John D. Caputo Archives) (2022) Specters of God: An Anatomy of Apophatic Imagination (Indiana University Press) (2022) The Collected Philosophical and Theological Papers, Volume 2 [1986-1996]: Hermeneutics and Deconstruction, ed. Eric Weislogel (John D. Caputo Archives) (2023) The Collected Philosophical and Theological Papers, Volume 4 [2001-2004]: Continental Philosophy of Religion, ed. Eric Weislogel (John D. Caputo Archives) (2023) What to Believe? Twelve Brief Lessons in Radical Theology (Columbia University Press) (2024) The Collected Philosophical and Theological Papers, Volume 5 [2005-2007]: Coming Out as a Theologian, ed. Eric Weislogel (John D. Caputo Archives) (2025) The Collected Philosophical and Theological Papers, Volume 6 [2008-2012]: Radical Theology, ed. Eric Weislogel (John D. Caputo Archives) (2026) The Collected Philosophical and Theological Papers, Volume 7 [2013-2023]: Theopoetics, ed. Eric Weislogel (John D. Caputo Archives)
Books edited by Caputo (1992) Modernity and Its Discontents, ed. (Fordham University Press) (1993) Foucault and the Critique of Institutions, ed. (Pennsylvania State University Press) (1997) Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida, ed./auth. (Fordham University Press) (1999) God, the Gift and Postmodernism, ed. (with Michael Scanlon) (Indiana University Press) (2001) The Religious, ed. (Blackwell) (2001) Questioning God: Religion and Postmodernism II, ed. (with Michael Scanlon) (Indiana University Press) (2004) Augustine and Postmodernism, ed. (with Michael Scanlon) (Indiana University Press) (2007) Transcendence and Beyond (with Michael Scanlon), ed. (Indiana University Press) (2009) St. Paul among the Philosophers (with Linda Alcoff), ed. (Indiana University Press) (2011) Feminism, Sexuality and Religion (with Linda Alcoff ), ed. (Indiana University Press)
Books about Caputo (2021) Calvin D. Ullrich, Sovereignty and Event: The Political in John D. Caputo's Radical Theology (Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck) (2020) Zohar Mihaely, Sacred Anarchy: John Caputo and the Challenge of Religions Today (Resling, Tel Aviv) זהר מיכאלי, אנרכיה קדושה: ג'ון קאפוטו ואתגר הדתות כיום, תל אביב, רסלינג, 2020 (2018) Štefan Štofanik, The Adventure of Weak Theology: Reading the Work of John D. Caputo through Biographies and Events (SUNY Press) (2015) Katharine Sarah Moody, Radical Theology and Emerging Christianity: Deconstruction, Materialism and Religious Practices (Ashgate) (2015) Elian Cuvillier, Ed., "John Caputo: Faiblesse de Dieu et déconstruction de la théologie," Special Issue of Études Théologiques et Religieuses, Volume 90 (No. 3): 2015. (2012) Phil Snider, Preaching After God: Derrida, Caputo, and the Language of Postmodern Homiletics (Wipf and Stock Publishers) (2010) Cross and Khora: Deconstruction and Christianity in the Work of John D. Caputo, eds. Neal Deroo and Marko Zlomsic (Wipf and Stock Press) (2009) Christopher Ben Simpson, Religion, Metaphysics and the Postmodern: William Desmond and John D. Caputo, (Indiana University Press) (2009) Ricardo Gil Soeiro, Grammatica da Esperança: Da Hermeneutica da Transcendencia à Hermeneutica Radical (Lisbon: Nova Vega) (2002) A Passion for the Impossible: John D. Caputo in Focus, ed. Mark Dooley (SUNY Press) (2002) Religion With/Out Religion: The Prayers and Tears of John D. Caputo, ed. James Olthuis (Routledge Press) (1997) The Very Idea of Radical Hermeneutics, ed. Roy Martinez (Humanities Press)
Interviews (2010) "John Caputo – Postmodernism and Religion," with Luke Muehlhauser, Common Sense Atheism, September 15, 2010 (www.commonsenseatheism.com) (2010) "John D. Caputo Returns," Homebrewed Christianity 82, July 2010 (www.homebrewedchristianity.com) (2009) "Good Soup and Other Gifts" in With Gifted Thinkers: Conversations With Caputo, Hart, Horner, Kearney, Keller, Rigby, Taylor, Wallace, Westphal (European University Studies: Series 23, Theology, Vol. 896), ed. Mark Manolopoulos (Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Vienna: Peter Lang Pub Inc., 2009), pp. 51–74. (2008) "A Theology of Our Desire: A Dialogue with John D. Caputo," Polygraph: An International Journal of Culture and Politics, 19/20 (2008): 159-175. (2008) "An Interview with John D. Caputo," Homebrewed Christianity (2008) on line at: https://trippfuller.com/?p=202 (2007) "From Radical Hermeneutics to the Weakness of God: John D. Caputo in Dialogue with Mark Dooley," ed. Ian Leask, Philosophy Today, 51:2 (Summer, 2007): 216-26. Reprinted in: Cross and Khora: Deconstruction and Christianity in the Work of John D. Caputo, Eds. Neal Deroo and Marko Zlomsic (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2010), pp. 327–48. (2007) "On the Power of the Powerless," in Gianni Vattimo and John D. Caputo, After the Death of God, ed. Jeffrey Robbins (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), 114-60 (2005) "Emmet Cole Interviews John D. Caputo," The Modern World (May 16, 2005 ) (https://web.archive.org/web/20130115014457/http://themodernword.com/features/interview_caputo.html) (2004) "In Praise of Devilish Hermeneutics," in Thinking Otherwise: Critics in Conversation, ed. Julian Humphreys (New York: Fordham University Press, 2004), pp. 119–23. (2002) "Loosening Philosophy's Tongue: A Conversation with Jack Caputo," with Carl Raschke, Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory, Vol. 3, No. 2 (April, 2002). An on line journal: www.jcrt.org. (2001) "What Do I Love When I Love My God?: An Interview with John D. Caputo," with Keith Putt, in Religion With/out Religion: The Prayers and Tears of John D. Caputo, ed. James H. Olthuis (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 150–179.
Journal articles and book chapters
2020 "Gadamer and the Postmodern Mind," in The Gadamerian Mind, ed. Theodore George and Gert-Jan van der Heidne (a Routledge series Philosophical Minds).
2019 "L'existance de Dieu: réconcilier le monde avec Dieu," trans. Pascale Renaud-Grosbras, Études Théologiques et Religieuses, Vol. 94, No. 1 (2019): 37-54. (Translation of Cross and Cosmos, pp. 127–39). "The Theopoetic Reduction: Suspending the Supernatural Signified," Literature and Theology, Ed. Heather Walton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2019). "Tradition and Event: Radicalizing the Catholic Principle," in The Challenge of God: Continental Philosophy and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Eds. Colby Dickinson, Hugh Miller and Kathleen McNutt (London: Bloomsbury, 2019), 99-113. "Continental Philosophy and American Catholics: Then, Now, and Tomorrow," in The Catholic Reception of Continental Philosophy in North America, eds. Gregory P. Floyd and Stephanie Rumpza (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019), 90-113. "Ontological Difference," in 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, Eds. Gail Weiss, Gayle Salamon, Ann Murphy (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2019). "A Response to Professor Risser," Duquesne Journal of Phenomenology. "Violence and the Unconditional: A Radical Theology of Culture," in Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion, eds. Jason Wesley Alvis and Jeffrey Robbins, I (2019), 170-90. "The Subjunctive Power of God," Concilium, special issue "Politics, Theology and the Meaning of Power." ed. Joao Vila-Cha.
2018 "Afterword: An Ear for My Voice," in Stefan Stofanik, The Adventures of Weak Theology (SUNY Press), eds. Joeri Schrijvers and Lieven Boeve. "Interpretation All the Way Down: Encountering the Unconditional," Legacy: The Magazine of The National Association for Interpretation, 29:5 (September–October, 2018): 21-3. "Theology in Trumptime: The Insistence of America" in Doing Theology in the Age of Trump: A Critical Report on Christian Nationalism, eds. Clayton Crockett and Jeffrey Robbins, Westar Seminar on God and the Human Future (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2018), 77-81. "The Seminar on God and the Human Future: A Report on the 2018 Meeting," The Fourth R, Vol. 31, No. 4 (July–August 2018): 17-22. "Theology, Poetry and Theopoetics," in The Art of Anatheism, eds. Richard Kearney and Matthew Clemente (London & New York: Rowman Littlefield, 2018), 43-48. "From Sacred Anarchy to Political Theology: An Interview with John D. Caputo" (by Clayton Crockett) in The Essential Caputo, ed. B. Keith Putt (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018), 18-43. "Radical Theologians, Knights of Faith, and the Future of the Philosophy of Religion," in Reconfigurations of the Philosophy of Religion, ed. Jim Kanaris (Albany: SUNY Press, 2018), 211-36.
2017 "If There Is Such a Thing: Posse ipsum, the Impossible, and le peut-être même: Reading Catherine Keller's Cloud of the Impossible" Journal of Cultural and Religious Studies, 17:1 (December, 2017). https://www.jcrt.org/archives/17.1/Caputo.pdf "John D. Caputo" (Interview by George Yancy in George Yancy, On Race: 34 Conversations in a Time of Crisis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), 73-80.