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Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida
Contributor(s): de Vries, Hent (Author)

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 ISBN: 1421437538     ISBN-13: 9781421437538
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
OUR PRICE: $49.40  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Ethics
- Religion | Comparative Religion
- Social Science | Sociology Of Religion
Dewey: 291.569
Age Level: 22-UP
Grade Level: 17-UP
Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.52 lbs) 470 pages
 
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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.

--Talal Asad, City University of New York Graduate Center "Journal of Religion"
 
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