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

By:

Vries, Hent de

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TextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 443 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0801875234
9780801875236

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Religion and violence.DDC classification:

291.5/697 21

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BL65.V55 V75 2001eb

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11.02

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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.

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Summary: 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.

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

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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.

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