Overview

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.

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Author:   Tarek R. Dika (University of Notre Dame, USA) ,  Martin Shuster (Goucher College, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367133610

ISBN 10:   036713361
Pages:   406
Publication Date:   30 November 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction; 1 Theology on Edge-Tomoko Masuzawa; 2 Violence, Religion, Metaphysics-Gwenaëlle Aubry; 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 Gordon; 14 Religion as Pre-Text, Art as Counter-Text-Mieke Bal

Reviews

This must-read collection of essays by a globally renowned choir of voices is more than a profound, pulsating celebration of Hent de Vries' pathbreaking contribution to the sociology, politics and philosophy of religion: it's a right-on-time engagement with religion's past, present and future as the killing knee of oppression, the soul of hope, a stomp down, a prayer, a terror, a metaphysic and, even, a joy. - Anita L. Allen, University of Pennsylvania Hent de Vries is among the most intrepid explorers of the intersection of religion and reason in post-modernity. This fascinating volume will henceforth serve as the starting point for anyone seeking to engage his thought. Each contributor is a luminary, each contribution a chiseled gem. Together they illuminate de Vries' oeuvre, and simultaneously take on some of the most pressing questions of contemporary politics, ethics, theology, and metaphysics. - David Nirenberg, Institute for Advanced Study The rich and diverse essays in Religion in Reason testify to the multidisciplinary interventions and enduring relevance of Hent de Vries's work in the fields of philosophy, theology, and political theory. This wonderful volume offers learned and exciting readings of, among others, Adorno, Aquinas, Derrida, Duns Scotus, Freud, Heidegger, Levinas, Charles Taylor, and Max Weber. Most broadly, anyone interested in religion, secularism, religious and political violence, as well as the role that theology might and does play in the modern world, has much to gain from the learned and engaging essays in this volume. - Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University

Author Information

Tarek R. Dika is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Descartes’s Method: The Formation of the Subject of Science (2023) and the co-author, with W. Chris Hackett, of Quiet Powers of the Possible: Interviews in Contemporary French Phenomenology (2016) as well as numerous articles on Descartes, Heidegger, and contemporary French phenomenology. Martin Shuster is Professor of Philosophy and the Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Judaic Studies at University of North Carolina—Charlotte. In addition to many articles and essays, he is the author of Autonomy after Auschwitz: Adorno, German Idealism, and Modernity (2014), New Television: The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre (2017), and How to Measure a World? A Philosophy of Judaism (2021). With Anne O’Byrne he is the editor of Logics of Genocide: The Structures of Violence and the Contemporary World (Routledge, 2020).

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