Demythologizing Heidegger [Paperback]

Caputo offers a compelling plea for a reinterpretation of Heidegger that will make us more humane, and more attuned to the call of justice and mercy than to the call of Being. Christian Century

There is no other book that focuses on the religious significance of the many turnings in Heideggers thought, nor that addresses the question of Heideggers politics textually rather than autobiographically. Merold Westphal

A readable chronological consideration of Heideggers texts that assesses his achievement as a thinker, while pointing to the sources of his political and ethical failure. Caputo addresses the religious significance of Heideggers thought.

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INTRODUCTION: Demythologizing Heidegger

1. Aletheia and the Myth of Being
2. Heideggers Kampf: The Difficulty of Life and the Hermeneutics of Facticity
3. Sorge and Kardia: The Hermeneutics of Facticity and the Categories of the Heart
4. Heideggers Responsibility: The Myth of Beings Call
5. Heideggers Revolution: The Politics of the Myth of Being
6. Heideggers Essentialism: The Logic of the Mythologic of Being
7. Heideggers Scandal: Thinking and the Essence of the Victim
8. Heideggers Poets
9. Heideggers Gods: From Demythologizing to Remythologizing
10. Hyperbolic Justice: Mythologizing Differently with Derrida and Levinas
11. Conclusion: Heidegger and the Jewgreeks

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JOHN D. CAPUTO is David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. His publications include Radical Hermeneutics: Repetition, Deconstruction, and the Hermeneutic Project and Heidegger and Aquinas: An Essay on Overcoming Metaphysics.