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The Times of Israel https://blogs.timesofisrael.com  › john-d-caputo-intervie... May 14, 2025 —  Could you tell us   how   his Augustinian identity connects   with   your theology   of the   event ?   John D .   Caputo : Yes, he was   one   of   my students   in   a  ... Read more ... The new pope, Leo XIV, was one of your students. Could you tell us how his Augustinian identity connects with your theology of the event? John D. Caputo:  Yes, he was one of my students in a course I taught for Augustinian seminarians at Villanova University. The seminarians, who were part of the Order of Saint Augustine (OSA), had to complete a rigorous philosophy curriculum, and one of the required courses was mine: German Existentialism and Phenomenology. In that course, I taught Kierkegaard and Nietzsche in the first half, then Husserl and excerpts from Heidegger’s  Being and Time  in the second half. He...

How Foucault was shielded from scandal by French reverence for intellectuals The French philosopher king continued to write extensively on chastity while allegations about his paedophilia were covered up From magazine issue: 31 July 2021 [ https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/france-s-reverence-for-intellectuals-shielded-michel-foucault-from-scandal/] Michel Foucault in 1979. [Getty Images] There are scientific articles proving Foucault defense of decriminalization of pedophilia and rape. According to Zizek (2018) in 1968, “the French “progressive” press published a series of petitions demanding the decriminalization of pedophilia, claiming that this would abolish the artificial and oppressive culturally constructed frontier that separates children from adults, and would extend to children the right to freely dispose with one’s body” (p.127). Among the people who signed these petitions, there were Michel Foucault.  [https://socialimpactscience.org/gender/2020/10/16/foucault-defended...