Hent De Vries
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3635196 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Hent De Vries |
| PRENOMES | Hent |
| SOBRENOME | De Vries |
| ASSINATURA | DE VRIES H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Antinomy of Death
This article discusses the remarkable conversation between Ernst Bloch and Theodor W. Adorno regarding the relationship between utopia and death. It unpacks the antinomy of death and analyzes the motif of an ever diminishing – and, hence, minimally theological – messianic hope in light of the no less theological trope of the restitution or redemption of all things, whose maximal effect ties a shared profound metaphysical intuition with a deeply p…
On the "Spiritual" in Aesthetic Experience; or, The "Nonfactual in Facticity
This article revisits the original meaning of "spiritual" as distinct from "intellectual" experience in Theodor W. Adorno's late work. It does so through the implicitly Hegelian motifs in Wassily Kandinsky's manifesto "On the Spiritual in Art," a text that Adorno engages in passing in his Aesthetic Theory and that was, in turn, deeply influenced by the thought of Kandinsky's nephew Alexandre Kojève, who also wrote an essay on his uncle's painting…
Religion and Violence
Miracles et métaphysique
Le miracle est un événement qui semble excéder ses causes. Frappant, imprévu, il remet en question les limites de ce qui est censé être possible. Mais n’est-ce pas ce qui caractérise les événements authentiques, dans les domaines historiques et politiques, éthiques et artistiques, dans les vies et les amours individuelles ? En quel sens pouvons-nous dire que les miracles, et plus précisément la pensée du miracle, peuvent constituer une ressource …
Jacques Derrida and the Theodor W. Adorno Prize of the City of Frankfurt
Jacques Derrida and the Theodor W. Adorno Prize of the City of Frankfurt Hent de Vries Do you not know that in a race all therunners run, but only one gets the prize?Run in such a way as to get the prize.Everyone who competes in the games goesinto strict training. They do it to get a crownthat will not last, but we do it to get a crownthat will last forever. Therefore I do not runlike someone running aimlessly; I do notfight like a boxer beating …
Weight of All Flesh
Eric Santner offers a radically new interpretation of Marx's labour theory of value as one concerned with the afterlife of political theology in secular modernity. What Marx characterised as the dual character of the labour embodied in the commodity, he argues, is the doctrine of the King's Two Bodies transferred from the political theology of sovereignty to the realm of political economy. This genealogy, leading from the fetishism of the royal b…
Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World
Prefatory Note
Chapitres à écrire
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Phenomenal Violence and the Philosophy of Religion
This chapter offers the example of a philosophy that began with Jacques Derrida, the genesis and structure of whose overall thinking, writing, and interpretative praxis it reviews. Derrida, who has played an influential role as a groundbreaking thinker, speaks of an unconditional affirmation, an absolute performative, whose contours are not established. The neologism mondialatinisation captures the old-new and new-old taken as a total social phen…
A Religious Canon for Europe
This essay discusses the "need to know" in public policy now that it has been confronted with the resurgence of so-called global religion. More specifically, it details recent controversies concerning "the religious fact" in education in the secular state and analyzes the conceptual difficulties in differentiation between "cult" and "culture." The essay concludes with some very tentative observations concerning the desirability of a religious "ca…
The Kierkegaardian Moment
The Kierkegaardian Moment:Dialectical Theology and Its Aftermath Hent de Vries It is common knowledge that Kierkegaard was widely and eagerly read by European theologians of different stripes when in the early 20th century his works became gradually available in translation (into German, French, and then also English). An extensive body of scholarship has been devoted to that reception and to the difficulties that (often inadequate) translations …
“A Greatest Miracle”
What to make of “the ordinary,”“the everyday,” and their common “eventfulness”? What to think of what Veena Das, in her recent book Life and Words , prefaced by Stanley Cavell, has called our need to “descent into the ordinary”? Is there a parallel figure of “ascent,” again, into the same “ordinary,” that we might we want to juxtapose with it and that resembles the motif of “change,” even “conversion,” that Cavell analyzes at some length in The C…
Stanley Cavell on St. Paul
Stanley Cavell on St. Paul Hent de Vries You may battle against the Christian’s self-understanding from within, as Kierkegaard declares, or from beyond Christianity, as Nietzsche declares. In both cases you are embattled because you find the words of the Christian to be the right words. (Cavell, The Claim 352) It has been a good day, a good Friday. As we were planning this symposium, I recalled that it just so happened that its timing would coinc…
The Deep Conditions of Secularity
In modern societies and cultures today, religion is widely perceived as basically even if not merely trivially “optional.” This is a contention strongly advocated by Charles Taylor, most notably in his monumental A Secular Age . Throughout his career, Taylor has made the question of religion in modernity the core of his interests. In his most recent work, A Secular Age , Taylor addresses challenging issues of what he calls the “contemporary spiri…
A Vocation for the Humanities
"The Miracle of Love" and the Turn to Democracy
“The Miracle of Love” and the Turn to Democracy Hent de Vries (bio) In a recent interview, Rodolphe Gasché (2002) asked about the more recent debates regarding deconstruction’s relationship with—and, indeed, supposed turn to—the question of politics, ethics, and justice, and he wisely declared himself to be skeptical, indeed downright suspicious, of all too hasty appeals and all too abrupt turns to “turns.” Thinking the political would, first of …
Political Theologies
What has happened to religion in its present manifestations? In recent years, Enlightenment secularization, as it appeared in the global spread of structures that relegate the sacred to a private sphere, seems suddenly to have foundered. Unexpectedly, it has discovered its own parochialism-has discovered, indeed, that secularization may never have taken place at all. With the return of the religious, in all aspects of contemporary social, politic…
On General and Divine Economy
Political Theologies
What has happened to religion in its present manifestations? In recent years, Enlightenment secularization, as it appeared in the global spread of political structures that relegate the sacred to a private sphere, seems suddenly to have foundered. Unexpectedly, it has discovered its own parochialism—has discovered, indeed, that secularization may never have taken place at all. With the “return of the religious”, in all aspects of contemporary soc…
Religion and Media
The latter part of the twentieth century saw an explosion of new media that effected profound changes in human categories of communication. At the same time, a "return to religion" occurred on a global scale. The twenty-five contributors to this volume—who include such influential thinkers as Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Talal Asad, and James Siegel—confront the conceptual, analytical, and empirical difficulties involved in addressing the com…
On Obligation
Lapsus Absolu
Formal Indications
Formal Indications Hent de Vries Je ne conteste pas que nous sommes toujours en fait dans ce monde, mais c’est un monde où nous sommes altérés. La vulnérabilité, c’est le pouvoir de dire adieu à ce monde. On lui dit adieu en vieillissant. Le temps dure en guise de cet adieu et de l’à- Dieu.1 Early on in The Genesis of “Being and Time,” Theodore Kisiel remarks: “Heidegger’s breakthrough to his lifelong philosophical topic is inherently tied to a p…
Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination
With the collapse of the bipolar system of global rivalry that dominated world politics after the Second World War, and in an age that is seeing the return of "ethnic cleansing" and "identity politics," the question of violence, in all of its multiple ramifications, imposes itself with renewed urgency. Rather than concentrating on the socioeconomic or political backgrounds of these historical changes, the contributors to this volume rethink the c…
Anti-Babel
In May 1916, Walter Benjamin, in response to Martin Buber's request for a contribution to the journal Der Jude, wrote that the spirit of Jewish tradition was one of the most important and persistent themes in his thought.' Benjamin had met Buber earlier in 1914 when he had invited him to give a lecture for the 'Freie Studentenschaft' in Berlin, but his relation to him had from the very start been marked by a certain reservation which became even …
The Antinomy of Death
This article discusses the remarkable conversation between Ernst Bloch and Theodor W. Adorno regarding the relationship between utopia and death. It unpacks the antinomy of death and analyzes the motif of an ever diminishing – and, hence, minimally theological – messianic hope in light of the no less theological trope of the restitution or redemption of all things, whose maximal effect ties a shared profound metaphysical intuition with a deeply p…
On the "Spiritual" in Aesthetic Experience; or, The "Nonfactual in Facticity
This article revisits the original meaning of "spiritual" as distinct from "intellectual" experience in Theodor W. Adorno's late work. It does so through the implicitly Hegelian motifs in Wassily Kandinsky's manifesto "On the Spiritual in Art," a text that Adorno engages in passing in his Aesthetic Theory and that was, in turn, deeply influenced by the thought of Kandinsky's nephew Alexandre Kojève, who also wrote an essay on his uncle's painting…
Miracles et métaphysique
Le miracle est un événement qui semble excéder ses causes. Frappant, imprévu, il remet en question les limites de ce qui est censé être possible. Mais n’est-ce pas ce qui caractérise les événements authentiques, dans les domaines historiques et politiques, éthiques et artistiques, dans les vies et les amours individuelles ? En quel sens pouvons-nous dire que les miracles, et plus précisément la pensée du miracle, peuvent constituer une ressource …
Jacques Derrida and the Theodor W. Adorno Prize of the City of Frankfurt
Jacques Derrida and the Theodor W. Adorno Prize of the City of Frankfurt Hent de Vries Do you not know that in a race all therunners run, but only one gets the prize?Run in such a way as to get the prize.Everyone who competes in the games goesinto strict training. They do it to get a crownthat will not last, but we do it to get a crownthat will last forever. Therefore I do not runlike someone running aimlessly; I do notfight like a boxer beating …
"The Miracle of Love" and the Turn to Democracy
“The Miracle of Love” and the Turn to Democracy Hent de Vries (bio) In a recent interview, Rodolphe Gasché (2002) asked about the more recent debates regarding deconstruction’s relationship with—and, indeed, supposed turn to—the question of politics, ethics, and justice, and he wisely declared himself to be skeptical, indeed downright suspicious, of all too hasty appeals and all too abrupt turns to “turns.” Thinking the political would, first of …
Anti-Babel
In May 1916, Walter Benjamin, in response to Martin Buber's request for a contribution to the journal Der Jude, wrote that the spirit of Jewish tradition was one of the most important and persistent themes in his thought.' Benjamin had met Buber earlier in 1914 when he had invited him to give a lecture for the 'Freie Studentenschaft' in Berlin, but his relation to him had from the very start been marked by a certain reservation which became even …
Enlightenments
Theotopographies
How to think and circumscribe a toposwhich by its very definition can neither be fixed nor localized nor mapped, one-if there is one, just one, indivisible-that is neither geographically nor locally, socially or politically determinable, neither spatial nor situational nor institutional, neither extended nor void, neither here nor out there, but, in a certain sense, pure, beyond essence and finite measure, separated from everything and in that re…
Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination
With the collapse of the bipolar system of global rivalry that dominated world politics after the Second World War, and in an age that is seeing the return of "ethnic cleansing" and "identity politics," the question of violence, in all of its multiple ramifications, imposes itself with renewed urgency. Rather than concentrating on the socioeconomic or political backgrounds of these historical changes, the contributors to this volume rethink the c…
On Obligation
Lapsus Absolu
Formal Indications
Formal Indications Hent de Vries Je ne conteste pas que nous sommes toujours en fait dans ce monde, mais c’est un monde où nous sommes altérés. La vulnérabilité, c’est le pouvoir de dire adieu à ce monde. On lui dit adieu en vieillissant. Le temps dure en guise de cet adieu et de l’à- Dieu.1 Early on in The Genesis of “Being and Time,” Theodore Kisiel remarks: “Heidegger’s breakthrough to his lifelong philosophical topic is inherently tied to a p…
Religion and Media
The latter part of the twentieth century saw an explosion of new media that effected profound changes in human categories of communication. At the same time, a "return to religion" occurred on a global scale. The twenty-five contributors to this volume—who include such influential thinkers as Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Talal Asad, and James Siegel—confront the conceptual, analytical, and empirical difficulties involved in addressing the com…
On General and Divine Economy
Political Theologies
What has happened to religion in its present manifestations? In recent years, Enlightenment secularization, as it appeared in the global spread of political structures that relegate the sacred to a private sphere, seems suddenly to have foundered. Unexpectedly, it has discovered its own parochialism—has discovered, indeed, that secularization may never have taken place at all. With the “return of the religious”, in all aspects of contemporary soc…
Political Theologies
What has happened to religion in its present manifestations? In recent years, Enlightenment secularization, as it appeared in the global spread of structures that relegate the sacred to a private sphere, seems suddenly to have foundered. Unexpectedly, it has discovered its own parochialism-has discovered, indeed, that secularization may never have taken place at all. With the return of the religious, in all aspects of contemporary social, politic…
"The Miracle of Love" and the Turn to Democracy
“The Miracle of Love” and the Turn to Democracy Hent de Vries (bio) In a recent interview, Rodolphe Gasché (2002) asked about the more recent debates regarding deconstruction’s relationship with—and, indeed, supposed turn to—the question of politics, ethics, and justice, and he wisely declared himself to be skeptical, indeed downright suspicious, of all too hasty appeals and all too abrupt turns to “turns.” Thinking the political would, first of …
The Deep Conditions of Secularity
In modern societies and cultures today, religion is widely perceived as basically even if not merely trivially “optional.” This is a contention strongly advocated by Charles Taylor, most notably in his monumental A Secular Age . Throughout his career, Taylor has made the question of religion in modernity the core of his interests. In his most recent work, A Secular Age , Taylor addresses challenging issues of what he calls the “contemporary spiri…
A Vocation for the Humanities
“A Greatest Miracle”
What to make of “the ordinary,”“the everyday,” and their common “eventfulness”? What to think of what Veena Das, in her recent book Life and Words , prefaced by Stanley Cavell, has called our need to “descent into the ordinary”? Is there a parallel figure of “ascent,” again, into the same “ordinary,” that we might we want to juxtapose with it and that resembles the motif of “change,” even “conversion,” that Cavell analyzes at some length in The C…
Stanley Cavell on St. Paul
Stanley Cavell on St. Paul Hent de Vries You may battle against the Christian’s self-understanding from within, as Kierkegaard declares, or from beyond Christianity, as Nietzsche declares. In both cases you are embattled because you find the words of the Christian to be the right words. (Cavell, The Claim 352) It has been a good day, a good Friday. As we were planning this symposium, I recalled that it just so happened that its timing would coinc…
Phenomenal Violence and the Philosophy of Religion
This chapter offers the example of a philosophy that began with Jacques Derrida, the genesis and structure of whose overall thinking, writing, and interpretative praxis it reviews. Derrida, who has played an influential role as a groundbreaking thinker, speaks of an unconditional affirmation, an absolute performative, whose contours are not established. The neologism mondialatinisation captures the old-new and new-old taken as a total social phen…
A Religious Canon for Europe
This essay discusses the "need to know" in public policy now that it has been confronted with the resurgence of so-called global religion. More specifically, it details recent controversies concerning "the religious fact" in education in the secular state and analyzes the conceptual difficulties in differentiation between "cult" and "culture." The essay concludes with some very tentative observations concerning the desirability of a religious "ca…
The Kierkegaardian Moment
The Kierkegaardian Moment:Dialectical Theology and Its Aftermath Hent de Vries It is common knowledge that Kierkegaard was widely and eagerly read by European theologians of different stripes when in the early 20th century his works became gradually available in translation (into German, French, and then also English). An extensive body of scholarship has been devoted to that reception and to the difficulties that (often inadequate) translations …
Chapitres à écrire
n'est autorise que dans les limites des conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement
Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World
Prefatory Note
Jacques Derrida and the Theodor W. Adorno Prize of the City of Frankfurt
Jacques Derrida and the Theodor W. Adorno Prize of the City of Frankfurt Hent de Vries Do you not know that in a race all therunners run, but only one gets the prize?Run in such a way as to get the prize.Everyone who competes in the games goesinto strict training. They do it to get a crownthat will not last, but we do it to get a crownthat will last forever. Therefore I do not runlike someone running aimlessly; I do notfight like a boxer beating …
Weight of All Flesh
Eric Santner offers a radically new interpretation of Marx's labour theory of value as one concerned with the afterlife of political theology in secular modernity. What Marx characterised as the dual character of the labour embodied in the commodity, he argues, is the doctrine of the King's Two Bodies transferred from the political theology of sovereignty to the realm of political economy. This genealogy, leading from the fetishism of the royal b…
Miracles et métaphysique
Le miracle est un événement qui semble excéder ses causes. Frappant, imprévu, il remet en question les limites de ce qui est censé être possible. Mais n’est-ce pas ce qui caractérise les événements authentiques, dans les domaines historiques et politiques, éthiques et artistiques, dans les vies et les amours individuelles ? En quel sens pouvons-nous dire que les miracles, et plus précisément la pensée du miracle, peuvent constituer une ressource …
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