- Paperback: 760 pages
- Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press (19 Jan 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0801880173
- ISBN-13: 978-0801880179
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 4.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,362,821 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This fiercely intricate and intriguing work gestures towards a 'theological' position that avoids the Scylla of false hope and the Charybdis of nihilism... A suggestive, intelligent and erudite (non-linear) journey alongside Habermas, Adorno, Levinas and Derrida.
(Christopher J. Insole Times Literary Supplement 2006)A deeply impressive achievement and an important contribution to theological debate in the wake of Critical Theory and deconstruction.
(Colin Davis Modern Language Review 2006)Is modern or twentieth-century philosophy, as any cursory look would seem to indicate, overwhelmingly secular, or is there perhaps an unacknowledged entanglement with religion that may be constitutive of what the most sophisticated thinking was and continues to be? It is the latter alternative that Hent de Vries has explored in his now substantial body of research on the works of thinkers such as Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Marion, Jacques Derrida and Theodor W. Adorno—all of whom he takes to represent a kind of 'working through' of theological motifs in the register of conceptual, philosophical reflection. De Vries has previously published two acclaimed books on this topic— Philosophy and the Turn to Religion (1999) and Religion and Violence (2001)... Minimal Theologies is an important book that ought to find a wide readership.
(Espen Hammer Radical Philosophy 2005)A substantial contribution to the philosophy of religion and to the study of the thought of Adorno and Levinas.
(Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses 2006)Very demanding but rewarding book.
(Marsha Aileen Hewitt Religious Studies Review 2006)Deserves to be examined with care.
(Ryan Coyne Journal of Religion 2007)Review
Truly original. For anyone concerned with the critical theory of the Frankfurt school, deconstruction, and developments in theology, this is obligatory reading. This impressive book is not only a piece of sound, rigorous, and meticulous scholarship, it is also one whose thesis is extraordinarily important.
(Rodolphe Gasché, State University of New York, Buffalo )
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IN THE MODERN AGE thought increasingly must do without a substantial and fundamentally onto-theological determination of philosophical reason and rationality. Read the first page
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