Levinas and Buber: Dialogue and Difference

Contributors

312 Contributors PETER ATTERTON teaches philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He has translated several essays by Levinas and publishes in the field of Continental philosophy. With Matthew Calarco, he is author of On Levinas (2004), and editor of The Continental Ethics Reader (2003). He is currently writing a book on Levinas entitled Ethics Beyond the Limits of Reason Alone. ROBERT BERNASCONI is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He is author of The Question of Language in Heidegger’s History of Being (1985) and Heidegger in Question (1993). He recently edited The Idea of Race (2001), Race (2001), and The Cambridge Companion to Levinas (2002) and is the author of numerous essays on Levinas and Derrida. MATTHEW CALARCO is assistant professor of philosophy at Sweet Briar College. He has published extensively on leading figures in contemporary Continental thought, including Agamben, Derrida, Levinas and Nancy. With Peter Atterton, he is author of On Levinas (2004), and editor of The Continental Ethics Reader (2003). He is currently completing a book entitled The Animal After Derrida. RICHARD A. COHEN is the Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is author of Ethics, Exegesis and Philosophy: Interpretation After Levinas (2001) and Elevations: The Height of the Good in Rosenzweig and Levinas (1994). He has translated several books by Emmanuel Levinas, including Time and the Other (1987) and Ethics and Infinity (1985), and edited Face to Face with Levinas (1986). He is director of the Levinas Center at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. MICHAEL FAGENBLAT is lecturer at the Australian Centre for the Study of Jewish Civilization, Monash University. Previously he was a Jerusalem CONTRIBUTORS Contributors 313 Fellow at the Mandel School for Social and Educational Leadership. His doctoral thesis How is Ethics Possible? Levinas, Heidegger and the Responsibilities of Transcendence, was written at Monash University, after which he was a Golda Meir Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He has published in philosophy and social criticism. MAURICE FRIEDMAN is professor emeritus of religious studies, philosophy and comparative literature at San Diego State University. He is translator of several works by Martin Buber, and is author of innumerable books and articles on Martin Buber, existentialism and philosophy. His Martin Buber’s Life and Work won the National Jewish Book Award. Among Friedman’s other works are Worlds of Existentialism: A Critical Reader (1991) and Religion and Psychology: A Dialogical Approach (1992). He is codirector of the Institute of Dialogical Psychotherapy in San Diego. ROBERT GIBBS is professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto where he teaches Continental philosophy and Jewish thought. His writings include Correlations in Rosenzweig and Levinas (1992) and Why Ethics? Signs of Responsibilities (2000). His most recent book is Suffering Religion, coedited with Elliot R. Wolfson (2002). His current research includes a larger project on law and ethics, and a book entitled Messianic Epistemology. NEVE GORDON teaches in the department of politics and government at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. He specializes in the field of political theory and human rights, and is a contributor to The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal of Dissent (2002). His research includes a theoretical analysis of social control, with particular emphasis on the writings of Antonio Gramsci, Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault. He also teaches and writes about feminism and human rights, emphasizing both the theoretical underpinnings of these topics and how they manifest themselves in the international sphere. ANDREW KELLEY is assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Bradley University. He has published articles 314 Contributors on Kant, Maimon, Levinas, and the philosophy of peace and war. In 1995, his translation of Josef Popper-Lynkeus’s The Individual and the Value of Human Life was published. He is currently translating Vladimir Jankélévitch’s Le Pardon, and coediting a book on the philosophy of peace. EPHRAIM MEIR is professor of modern and contemporary Jewish philosophy at Bar-Ilan University. He has translated Levinas’s Ethics and Infinity into Hebrew and has written numerous essays and lectured throughout the world on contemporary Jewish thought. He is also the author of Star from Jacob: The Life and Work of Franz Rosenzweig (in Hebrew, 1994) and Modernes jüdisches Denken (1996). STEPHAN STRASSER was Chair of Pedagogy at the University of Nijmegen until his retirement in 1975. Among...