Religion and Violence : Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida

de Vries, Hent

Johns Hopkins University Press（2020/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 470 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781421437538
• DDC分類 291.5

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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.

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. State, Academy, Censorship: The Question of Religious Tolerance
Chapter 2. Violence and Testimony: Kierkegaardian Meditations
Chapter 3. Anti-Babel: The Theologico-Political at Cross Purposes
Chapter 4. Hospitable Thought: Before and beyond Cosmopolitism
Bibliography
Index