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Religion and Violence

Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida

Hent de Vries author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Published:27th Mar '20

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Chosen as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 by Choice Magazine

Originally published in 2002. Does violence inevitably shadow our ethico-political engagements and decisions, including our understandings of identity, whether collective or individual? Questions that touch upon ethics and politics can greatly benefit from being rephrased in terms borrowed from the arsenal of religious and theological figures, because the association of such figures with a certain violence keeps moralism, whether in the form of fideism or humanism, at bay. Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida's careful posing of such questions and rearticulations pioneers new modalities for systematic engagement with religion and philosophy alike.

One cannot but be impressed by the acumen and erudition of Hent de Vries' Religion and Violence, which is a very fine addition to contemporary continental European philosophy of religion . . . It is a book well worth reading.
—Brian Schroeder, Ars Disputandi
Religion and Violence continues de Vries's reexamination of the place of philosophical theology and the philosophy of religion in the major texts of continental philosophy. Both subjects are transformed as de Vries meticulously unpacks the major texts of the post-Kantian philosophical tradition, unfolding in effect a new history of the afterlife of theology.
Choice
A rich text with many insightful readings . . . Hent de Vries is an excellent philosopher and scholar.
—Lasse Thomassen, Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques
Demonstrates with rich erudition how the Derridian programmatic can shed light on the 'religious' dimension of philosophical and ethical strategies that seek to address violence.
—Thomas E. Reynolds, Journal of Religion
One of a number of first-rate monographs published in the field of philosophy this year.
—Arthur Bradley, Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory

ISBN: 9781421437538

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 31mm

Weight: 590g

470 pages