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The
Humanities Center
Gilman 116
Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Phone: 410-516-0474
Fax: 410-516-4897
E-mail:hentdevries@jhu.edu
Academic Positions:
Since January 2003,
Hent de Vries has held
a joint appointment as Professor in the Humanities
Center and the Department of
Philosophy at the Johns
Hopkins University.
Since October 2007, he holds the Russ Family Chair in the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
Before
joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins, he held the Chair of Metaphysics and
Its History in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam
(1993-2002), where he continues to hold a research position as Professor Ordinarius of Systematic Philosophy and the Philosophy
of Religion. He was a co-founder of the Amsterdam School
for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), an interdisciplinary research institute with
a graduate program, and served as the Director of its governing board
(1994-98) and its Scientific Director (1998-2004).
He
received his PhD in Philosophy of Religion from the University of Leiden
in 1989. His previous teaching and research positions include: Mellon
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of German at Johns Hopkins; Associate
Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University of Chicago; Visiting Professor
at the Departments of German and the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins;
Senior Visiting Scholar at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion
at the University of Chicago; Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of
World Religions and Visiting Scholar at the Minda
de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard
University.
At Johns Hopkins,
he is Director of Graduate Studies in the Humanities
Center and a member of the
steering committee of The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman
Jewish Studies Program in the School
of Arts and Sciences.
He is also a member of the board of directors of the Zanvyl Krieger School's
Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality (WGS).
Since
May 2007, Hent de Vries
is Directeur de Programme
at the Collège
International de Philosophie, in Paris.
Teaching:
His teaching focuses on modern European thought, but
reflects other interests as well. He offers undergraduate courses and
graduate seminars on the history and critique of metaphysics, philosophies
of religion, political theologies, concepts of violence,
the tradition of spiritual exercises and of moral perfectionism, literature
and temporality.
Public Service Positions:
He is
Chair of The Future of the Religious
Past, an interdisciplinary program sponsored by the Netherlands
Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), which will disburse €5.4
million in support of advanced research and international conferences at
Dutch universities in 2002-2010. In this capacity, he is also serves as
General Editor of six volumes of proceedings resulting from the program.
Since
January 2006, he has served as an advisor to the Netherlands Scientific
Council of Government Policy (WRR) in The
Hague, and as a member of its project group on
Religion and the Public Domain, whose report is expected to be the basis for
the WRR's policy recommendations to the Dutch
government in 2007.
In 2006, Hent de Vries
was a member of the working group "Values, Beliefs and Ideologies as
Forces behind the Changing Europe," sponsored by the Humanities in the
European Research Area (HERA), a partnership between fifteen Humanities
Research Councils across Europe and the
European Science Foundation. HERA partners aim to establish best practices
in funding mechanisms, research priorities, humanities infrastructure and
the development of a transnational funding program. Since November 2007, he
is a member of the Management Committee of the European Science
Foundation's Forward Look Program on “Religion and Belief
Systems.”
Publications:
His principal publications include: Philosophy and the Turn to Religion (Johns
Hopkins UP, 1999, 2000), Religion and
Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida (Johns
Hopkins UP, 2002, 2006), and Minimal
Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Theodor W. Adorno
and Emmanuel Levinas (Johns Hopkins
UP, 2005).
He is the co-editor, with
Samuel Weber, of Violence, Identity,
and Self-Determination (Stanford UP, 1997) and of Religion and Media (Stanford UP,
2002). He co-edits, with Mieke Bal, the book
series Cultural Memory in the Present,
published by Stanford University Press. He is also the co-editor, with
Lawrence E. Sullivan, of Political
Theologies: Public Religions in a Post-Secular World (Fordham
UP 2006), the editor of Religion: Beyond a Concept (Fordham UP 2007), and the
co-editor, with Ward Blanton, of Paul
in Philosophy and Culture.
Currently, he is completing three book-length studies,
entitled Of Miracles and Special
Effects, Stanley Cavell
and Other Moral Perfectionists, and Instances: Spiritual Exercises in the Literatures of Time.
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