Heidegger and Aquinas: An Essay on Overcoming Metaphysics
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The purpose of the present study is to undertake a confrontation of the thought of Martin Heidegger and Thomas Aquinas on the question of Being and the problem of metaphysics. Now, a 'confrontation' which does no more than draw up a catalogue of common traits and points of difference is no more than a curiosity, an idle comparison which bears no fruit.

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Heidegger and Aquinas: An Essay on Overcoming Metaphysics
Available in a new digital edition with reflowable text suitable for e-readers

The purpose of the present study is to undertake a confrontation of the thought of Martin Heidegger and Thomas Aquinas on the question of Being and the problem of metaphysics. Now, a 'confrontation' which does no more than draw up a catalogue of common traits and points of difference is no more than a curiosity, an idle comparison which bears no fruit.

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Heidegger and Aquinas: An Essay on Overcoming Metaphysics

Heidegger and Aquinas: An Essay on Overcoming Metaphysics

by John D. Caputo
Heidegger and Aquinas: An Essay on Overcoming Metaphysics

Heidegger and Aquinas: An Essay on Overcoming Metaphysics

by John D. Caputo

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Available in a new digital edition with reflowable text suitable for e-readers

The purpose of the present study is to undertake a confrontation of the thought of Martin Heidegger and Thomas Aquinas on the question of Being and the problem of metaphysics. Now, a 'confrontation' which does no more than draw up a catalogue of common traits and points of difference is no more than a curiosity, an idle comparison which bears no fruit.


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ISBN-13: 9780823210985
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 01/01/1982
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 308
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile: 1330L (what's this?)

About the Author

John D. Caputo, the Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus (Syracuse University) and the Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus (Villanova University) is a constructive theologian who works in the area of “weak” or “radical” theology. His majors works include Radical Hermeneutics (1987), The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida (1997), The Weakness of God (2006). His most recent works are Hermeneutics: Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information (2018) and a second edition of On Religion (2018). The Essential Caputo (2018) a collection of his work from the early 1970s on. His latest books is Cross and Cosmos: A Theology of Difficult Glory (2019). He has addressed more general audiences in books like What Would Jesus Deconstruct? (2006) and Hoping against Hope (2015).
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