Hent de Vries holds the Chair of Metaphysics and its History in the
Department of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and is Director of the Amsterdam
School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). He received his PhD in Religious Studies at the
University of Leiden and has taught at The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and at
Loyola University Chicago, before taking up his present position. He was a 1997/98 Senior
Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions as well as a Visiting Scholar at the
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, both at Harvard University. He is the
author of a comparative study of the work of Theodor W. Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas,
entitled Theologie im pianissimo, which is forthcoming in an
English translation from Johns Hopkins University Press. He is the co-editor, with
Professor Samuel Weber (UCLA), of the book Violence, Identity and Self-Determination
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997), and the co-editor with Mieke Bal, of a new
international bookseries for Stanford University Press under the title Cultural Memory
in the Present. His booklength study Philosophy and the Turn to Religion is
published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 1999. Its sequel, entitled Horror
Religiosus. Philosophy, Violence, Testimony, will also be published by Johns Hopkins
UP in the Spring of 2000. With Samuel Weber, he is currently co-editing a volume on Religion
and Media, to be published by Stanford University Press in the Fall of 2000.
