Religion and Violence

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.

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.

Preface and Acknowledgments

xi

Abbreviations

xxi

Introduction: Horror Religiosus

1

(17)

State, Academy, Censorship: The Question of Religious Tolerance

18

(105)

The Institution of Philosophy

19

(6)

Modernity and the Question of Religious Tolerance: Rereading Kant's Conflict of the Faculties

25

(24)

The Triple Sign: Signum rememorativum, demonstrativum, prognostikon

49

(8)

The Voice from Nowhere: Philosophy and the Paradoxical Topography of the University

57

(10)

Paganism Religion Proper, and the Politics of Theology: Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason

67

(20)

Multiculturalism Reconsidered

87

(13)

Concentricity and Monocentrism

100

(2)

Ineradicable Evil

102

(8)

The Academic Contract: Old and New

110

(13)

Violence and Testimony: Kierkegaardian Meditations

123

(88)

Rereading Fear and Trembling

139

(3)

The Modality of Persecuted Truth

142

(18)

The ``Possibility of the Offense'': Kierkegaard on Martyrdom

160

(15)

Tautology and Heterology: Tout autre est tout autre

175

(3)

A dieu, adieu, a-dieu

178

(9)

Doubling ``God'' and God's Double

187

(13)

Beyond Sacrifice

200

(11)

Anti-Babel: The Theologico-Political at Cross Purposes

211

(82)

Positive Theology

213

(2)

Political Theology Revisited

215

(8)

Of Miracles: Kant's Political Theology

223

(13)

``Les extremes se touchent''

236

(15)

Rereading Walter Benjamin

251

(5)

The Originary Affirmation of Mysticism

256

(10)

``In the Beginning-No Beginning'': The Originary Catastrophe and the Gift of Language

266

(9)

``In the Beginning There Will Have Been Force'': The Mystical Postulate, Justice, and the Law

275

(12)

A Dieu: The Divine Signature

287

(6)

Hospitable Thought: Before and beyond Cosmopolitanism

293

(106)

Turning Around Religion: The Conditions of Responsibility

296

(4)

Two Concepts of Hospitality

300

(7)

Hospitality as ``Culture Itself''

307

(18)

The Torah before and beyond Revelation

325

(10)

Complementary Alternatives

335

(14)

Hospitality qua Friendship

349

(4)

The Theologico-Political Once More: Absolute Hostility

353

(9)

The Christianization of the Political

362

(8)

A Black Swan: Friendship from a Metaphysical and a Pragmatic Point of View

370

(18)

Final Considerations: Cosmopolitanism and the Institution of Philosophy

388

(11)

Bibliography

399

(34)

Index

433

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