Religion and Violence
Subtitle: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: November 6, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780801867675
Subjects: Ethics & moral philosophy; Metaphysics & ontology; Philosophy Of Religion; Psychology; Philosophy; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Violence; Sociology Of Religion; Comparative Religion; Ethics; Philosophy / General; General; Philosophy and religion; Religious aspects
First sentence: THIS BOOK asks whether and to what extent the notion of violence inevitably illumines or shadows our ethico-political engagements and decisions, including, more broadly, our understandings of our identities, historical and in the present, collective and individual.