Religion and Violence

Hent de Vries is professor of Modern European Thought in the Humanities Center and the Department of Philosophy at the Johns Hopkins University and professor of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. Among his books are Philosophy and the Turn to Religion and Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas, both available from Johns Hopkins. He is the co-editor, with Samuel Weber, of Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination and Religion and Media, and, with Mieke Bal, of the book series Cultural Memory in the Present.

One cannot but be impressed by the acumen and erudition of Hent de Vries' Religion and Violence, which is a very fine addition to contemporary continental European philosophy of religion... It is a book well worth reading. -- Brian Schroeder Ars Disputandi 2003 Religion and Violence continues de Vries's reexamination of the place of philosophical theology and the philosophy of religion in the major texts of continental philosophy. Both subjects are transformed as de Vries meticulously unpacks the major texts of the post-Kantian philosophical tradition, unfolding in effect a new history of the afterlife of theology. Choice A rich text with many insightful readings... Hent de Vries is an excellent philosopher and scholar. -- Lasse Thomassen Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques Demonstrates with rich erudition how the Derridian programmatic can shed light on the 'religious' dimension of philosophical and ethical strategies that seek to address violence. -- Thomas E. Reynolds Journal of Religion One of a number of first-rate monographs published in the field of philosophy this year. -- Arthur Bradley Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 2004

• Contents: Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations 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 Bibliography Index