Religion and violence : philosophical perspectives from Kant to Derrida / Hent de Vries.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vries, Hent de

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Religious aspects.

Violence.

Philosophy and religion.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 443 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

State academy, censorship: the question of religious tolerance

Violence and testimony: Kierkegaardian meditations

Anti-Babel: the theologico-political at cross purposes

Hospitable thought: before and beyond cosmopolitanism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [399]-431) and index.

ISBN:

0801867673

0801867681

OCLC:

45655096