Religion and violence
Subtitle: philosophical perspectives from Kant to Derrida
By: Hent de Vries.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
Subjects: Violence -- Religious aspects; Philosophy and religion; Violence -- Aspect religieux; Philosophie et religion; Geweld; Religieuze aspecten
Description: 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. De Vries' posing of such questions and rearticulations pioneers new modalities for systematic engagement with religion and philosophy alike.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-431) and index.
Table of contents: title: State, academy, censorship: the question of religious tolerance; title: Violence and testimony: Kierkegaardian meditations; title: Anti-Babel: the theologico-political at cross purposes; title: Hospitable thought: before and beyond cosmopolitanism.