The Exorbitant: Emmanuel Levinas Between Jews and Christians

Contributors

Contributors Leora Batnitzky is Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author of Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered (2000) and Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation (2006). Since 2004 she has been the coeditor of Jewish Studies Quarterly, as well as the editor of the forthcoming Martin Buber: Schriften zur Philosophie und Religion. She is currently writing a book on the philosophical and historical relations between modern religious thought (Jewish and Christian) and modern legal theory (analytic and Continental). Jeffrey Bloechl is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. His teaching and research centers on questions arising in Continental European thought, philosophy of religion, and Christian theology. He is the author of Liturgy of the Neighbor: Emmanuel Levinas and the Religion of Possibility (2000); editor of The Face of the Other and the Trace of God: Essays on the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas (2000) and Religious Experience and the End of Metaphysics (2003); and the editor of Levinas Studies: An Annual Review. Richard A. Cohen is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute of Jewish Thought and Heritage at the University of Buffalo (SUNY). He is the author of Elevations: The Height of the Good in Rosenzweig and Levinas (1994); Ethics, Exegesis and Philosophy: Interpretation 301 after Levinas (2001); and numerous articles in modern and contemporary Continental philosophy. He is the translator of three books by Emmanuel Levinas, Ethics and Infinity (1985), Time and the Other (1987), and New Talmudic Readings (1999), and the co-translator of Discovering Existence with Husserl (1998). He has also edited Face to Face with Levinas (1986) and co-edited In Proximity: Emmanuel Levinas and the Eighteenth Century (2002). Paul Franks is Senator Jeramiel S. and Carole S. Grafstein Professor of Jewish Philosophy in the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. He has also taught at the University of Michigan, Indiana University , the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Chicago. With Michael L. Morgan, he translated and edited, with commentary, Franz Rosenzweig: Philosophical and Theological Writings (2000). He is the author of All or Nothing: Systematicity, Skepticism, and Transcendental Arguments in German Idealism (2005) and of many articles on post-Kantian philosophy and Jewish thought, including most recently ‘‘Jewish Philosophy after Kant: The Legacy of Salomon Maimon,’’ in The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy (2007). Robert Gibbs is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. He has also taught at Princeton University and St. Louis University. He is the author of Correlations in Rosenzweig and Levinas (1992) and Why Ethics: Signs of Responsibilities (2000), as well as co-editor, with Elliot R. Wolfson, of Suffering Religion (2002) and co-author, with Steven Kepnes and Peter Ochs, of Reasoning after Revelation (1998). He has published widely on modern Jewish philosophy and is currently engaged in a major project on law and ethics. Kevin Hart is Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the author of, among other books, The Trespass of the Sign: Deconstruction, Theology and Philosophy (1989; rpt. 2000), The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot and the Sacred (2004), and Postmodernism: A Beginner’s Guide (2004). He is the editor of Counter-Experiences: Reading Jean-Luc Marion (2007) and The Oxford Book of Australian Religious Verse (1994). With Geoffrey Hartman, he has co-edited The Power of Contestation: Perspectives on Maurice Blanchot (2004); with Yvonne Sherwood , Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments (2004); and with Barbara Wall, The Experience of God: A Postmodern Perspective (2005). His seven 302 Contributors collections of poems are gathered in Flame Tree: Selected Poems (2002), and a new poetry volume, Young Rain, appeared in 2009. Dana Hollander is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University. Her research interests are modern Jewish thought, twentieth-century French and German philosophy, and German -Jewish history and culture. She has published Exemplarity and Chosenness : Rosenzweig and Derrida on the Nation of Philosophy (2008), and she is currently at work on a study of Hermann Cohen’s writings on love of the neighbor. Robyn Horner is Senior Lecturer in Theology at the Australian Catholic University. Her interests include the works of Jean-Luc Marion, Jacques Derrida, and Emmanuel Levinas, and she explores the intersections of theology and post-structuralism. She is the author of Re-Thinking God...