The diverse strands of my writing, research, and teaching can be gathered together
under the general heading of continental philosophy. But more specifically, my initial
work as a philosopher emerged from my passion for exploring the ethical, aesthetic, and
socio-political nexus of such modern German and Jewish philosophers as Kant, Hegel,
Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Benjamin, Arendt, and Rosenzweig. This led me more deeply
into how phenomenology can be used to better explore ethical relations and human rights
issues such as the Holocaust. Out of my initial fascination with the dialectical
philosophy of Hegel, I became deeply influenced by Rosenzweig's philosophy and am
currently involved in the growth and developments of the International Rosenzweig
Society. 

In 2007, I became keenly interested in the interrelation of ethics, science, and
technology and helped to found and then have served as the Scientific Director of the
Center for Science, Technology, Ethics, and Policy (CSTEP). I founded CSTEP on the
principles of a praxis that I had thought was a novel ethical
approach--'phenomenological ethics'--only to find out that the term had already
been coined by Werner Marx in his 1992 book, "Towards a Phenomenological
Ethics". I continue developing this novel approach in the several domains of
philosophy in which I am active.

Articles

Books

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The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust: Salvaging the Fragments (with john roth and jennifer geddes) (2009)
with John Roth and Jennifer Geddes; nominated for the National Jewish Book Award for non-fiction...
 

Contributions to Books

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What about the children? Benjamin and Arendt: on education, work, and the political, Teaching Global Community (2010)
This article is a rough draft of an article that I contributed to an edited...
 

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Making Ethical Sense of Useless Suffering with Levinas, The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust: Salvaging the Fragments (2009)
 

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Benjamin in Paris: Weak Messianism and Memories of the Oppressed, Topographies du Souvenir: “Le Livre des passages” de Walter Benjamin (2007)
 

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Rosenzweig's Messianic Aesthetics, Franz Rosenzweig's "Neues Denken" (2004)