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"For the Love of the Things Themselves: Derrida's Hyper-Realism"

John Caputo

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Event Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2001
Location: Slought Foundation at University of Pennsylvania
Theorizing Series | Organized by Aaron Levy, Gregory Flaxman

Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003



John D. Caputo is the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University where he has taught since 1968. He is the author of On Religion, forthcoming this Spring from Routledge, and has recently published More Radical Hermeneutics: On Not Knowing Who We Are (Indiana, 2000), which continues his project of building a working relationship between hermeneutics and deconstruction. He has also recently co-edited God, the Gift and Postmodernism (Indiana, 1999), which is a collection of studies based upon a series of conferences he has co-directed at Villanova featuring Jacques Derrida in dialogue with Jean-Luc Marion and other major postmodern religious thinkers. He is the author of Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida (New York: Fordham University Press, 1997), The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion without Religion (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997), and many other books on postmodern ethics, Heidegger, and Foucault. He is past Executive Co-Director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, and Editor of the book series, "Perspectives in Continental Philosophy" (Fordham University Press). He is past president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, a past member of the National Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association, and of the Executive Committee of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division.

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