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HENT DE VRIES tute an estimated 15 million, or 4 percent of the total population, a figure that is expected to rise to 30 millio ...

INTRODUCTION To return to our example, the contemporary political and public presence of ‘‘religion’’ seems no longer dependent ...

HENT DE VRIES ment of markets and the fortune or failure of nation-states, have contributed to the deter- ritorialization, deloc ...

INTRODUCTION their traditional definitions, based upon the existence of and dealings among states and sovereigns—seems needed, t ...

HENT DE VRIES special effects), which are in many ways elements of ‘‘belief in the making.’’ Indeed, they, more than anything el ...

INTRODUCTION intelligence community, political elites, and the general public because of their home- grown, suburban origins,^20 ...

HENT DE VRIES Qaeda is also relevant for the present generation: even if these young men are from Mid- dle Eastern or South Asia ...

INTRODUCTION osity. But other interpretations might be possible. Might religion, precisely in its minimal remainder—despite or t ...

HENT DE VRIES nationalism and ethnicity, not religion. Two factors give Islam apost hocimportance: the reciprocal rationalizatio ...

INTRODUCTION another instance of a seemingly inevitable clash of religions (or, rather, of religion, notably Islam, on the one h ...

HENT DE VRIES quences.^45 Time will tell whether and how this process will shape third-world regions. Could cheap and easily mai ...

INTRODUCTION By 2026, China’s economy will be bigger than America’s, and India’s will be much larger than that of any individual ...

HENT DE VRIES live with the skepticism concerning ‘‘other minds,’’ as Stanley Cavell might say? But it should not be forgotten t ...

INTRODUCTION While this process takes shape, other tendencies and potentialities may emerge, pres- enting threats that must be a ...

HENT DE VRIES so pick up possible announcements of things to come or learn to discern nuances of ‘‘disagreement’’ and ‘‘inner cl ...

INTRODUCTION affect.... This imitation of the affects... is nothing but the desire for a thing which is generated in us from the ...

HENT DE VRIES The imitative expression of the affects anticipates some of Spinoza’s later views in the unfinishedTractatus Polit ...

INTRODUCTION thought, the life of the mind, and ultimately ascientia intuitiva, a third kind of knowledge that is anamor Dei int ...

HENT DE VRIES F I G U R E 1 Parisian graffito: ‘‘I love the assassin. He who kills us and he who makes us dream.’’ ‘‘So you love ...

INTRODUCTION don’t tend to love killers, while keeping ambiguity intact—might already dispel their worst potential, and do so mi ...