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It is a confession that we do not have such a prodigious head as is required to answer the question what is happening, that we cannot get on top of what is happening, that we are stuck in the middle of it, in medias res, inter-esse, amazing and bewildered. We cannot soar over what is happening with philosophy's eagle-wings. What's happening has clipped our wings.

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Seek first the Kingdom of God: that is, the first order of business is to transform one's own inner life, not the accumulation of external trappings of speculative knowledge.

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Deconstruction is not meant to be a soft sighing for the future, but a way of deciding now and being impassioned in a moment.

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John D. Caputo

John D. Caputo

Born: October 26, 1940 (age 84)
Bio: John D. Caputo is an American philosopher who is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus at Syracuse University and the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Villanova University.
Known for:
  1. The weakness of God (2006)
  2. What Would Jesus Deconstruct? (2007)
  3. The prayers and tears of Jacques Derrida (1997)
  4. Philosophy and Theology (2006)
  5. Radical hermeneutics (1987)

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