Description
This book presents critical engagements with the work of Hent de Vries, widely regarded as one of the most important living philosophers of religion. Contributions by a distinguished group of scholars discuss the role played by religion in philosophy; the emergence and possibilities of the category of religion; and the relation between religion and violence, secularism, and sovereignty. Together, they provide a synoptic view of how de Vries’s work has prompted a reconceptualization of how religion should be studied, especially in relation to theology, politics, and new media. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars of religious studies, theology, and philosophy.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Tarek Dika and Martin Shuster
1 Theology on Edge
Tomoko Masuzawa
2 Violence, Religion, Metaphysics
Gwenaëlle Aubry
Translated by Jacob Levi
3 Imagination, Theolatry, and the Compulsion to Worship the Invisible
Elliot R. Wolfson
4 Theology’s Figures of Abandon: Revisiting the Topic of Original Affirmation
Asja Szafraniec
5 Theology as Searchlight: Miracle, Event, and the Place of the Natural
Willemien Otten
6 Are Miracles Possible?: Avicenna Revisited
Sari Nusseibeih
7 On Laws and Miracles
Ilit Ferber
8 Spiritual Exercise in the Age of their Technological Reproducibility
Eli Friedlander
9 Violence Inside-Out: Staring into the Sun with Georges Bataille
Samantha Carmel
10 The Graft of the Cat: Derrida, Kofman and the Question of the Animal
Sarah Hammerschlag
11 Corpus Mysticum: Henri de Lubac, Ernst Kantorowicz, Hent de Vries
Burcht Pranger
12 Spiritual Exercises in Political Theory: John Rawls and Hent de Vries
Alexandre Lefebvre
13 Adorno’s Secular Theology
Peter E. Gordon
14 Religion as Pre-Text, Art as Counter-Text
Mieke Bal
15 Anti-Retractationes: On Inexistence, Divine, and Other
Hent de Vries
Appendix: List of Hent de Vries’s Works
