Date of Award
1-1-2009
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Organizational Unit
Joint Ph.D. Program in Study of Religion
First Advisor
Jere Surber, Ph.D.
Second Advisor
Edward Antonio
Third Advisor
Carl Raschke
Keywords
Force, Justice, Law, Religious violence, Right, Terrorism
Abstract
Although a number of approaches to the issue of religious violence are already available for academic consumption, this study attempts to approach the problem of the violent tension between religious principles and secular socio-political realities from a new perspective. We argue that religious violence is best conceptualized as a moment of crisis in the relationship between law and justice, considered as both intimately related (in Kant's analysis of the rightful condition) and peculiarly disjointed (in Derrida's reflections on the possibility of "justice beyond law"). We provide a preliminary account of the necessary conditions for a future theory of religious violence based on our effort to recontextualize the discussion of the corresponding issues by paying close theoretical attention to the interaction between the concepts of law, justice, violence, and religion.
We conclude that any theoretical reevaluation of religious violence must inevitably widen its scope to include not only such customary problems as the relationship between "faith" and "knowledge" or the relationship between "private beliefs" and "public duties," but also an account of the peculiarly religious motivational framework that often implicitly guides our conversations about any future human condition of peace and justice.
Publication Statement
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Rights Holder
Evgeni V. Pavlov
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
File Format
application/pdf
Language
en
File Size
207 p.
Recommended Citation
Pavlov, Evgeni V., "Between Law and Justice: Kant, Derrida, and Religious Violence" (2009). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 502.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/502
Copyright date
2009
Discipline
Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Law