Heidegger and Aquinas: An Essay on Overcoming Metaphysics 1st Edition by John D. Caputo (PDF)

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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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⭐Although he doesn’t confess to this in the book, the transition from Aquinas to Heidegger was a major step in the development of Caputo’s thinking, eventually leading him to become one of the foremost Derrida scholars in the US. If you are familiar with one of these two figures and are interested in the other, I would highly recommend this book. Caputo finds deep links between the two, showing the unrecognized mystical side of Aquinas (who is so often read as staunchly dogmatic) and building upon his previous work on the mystical elements of Heidegger’s thought.

⭐Caputo masterfully explains the fundamental perspectives of both Aquinas and Heidegger. As a follower of Aquinas, I found his exposition of Aquinas accurate and thorough. Before reading his book, I knew nothing about Heidegger, but I feel that now I have some sort of handle on his thought. Caputo is extraordinarily fair to both philosophers, granting both of them as much latitude as he deems viable. Only in one place does he take serious issue with Heidegger, when he wonders whether Heidegger’s notion of being as “emergence into unconcealment” (or the event of appropriation and sending) finitizes or immanentizes God. This by itself, however, is a telling admission of the ultimate deficiency of Heidegger’s notion of “Being”. I would definitely recommend this book for a comparative study of both men. On the other hand, Sacchi’s “Apocalypse of Being” offers a more polemical critique of Heidegger than Caputo’s book, and may be more satisfying to someone (like myself) having a Thomistic view on reality.

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