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Religion and Violence:

Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida
  • ISBN-13: 9781421437538
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Hent de Vries
  • Price: AUD $113.00
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  • Local release date: 14/05/2020
  • Format: Paperback 470 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Philosophy [HP]
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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.

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Preface and Acknowledgments
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Introduction

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

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""One of a number of first-rate monographs published in the field of philosophy this year.""

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