Levinas Studies

Cedric Cohen-Skalli teaches modern Jewish philosophy at the University of Haifa. He is Director of the Bucerius Institute for the Research of Contemporary German History and Society. He has published, translated and edited many books and articles on diverse intercultural aspects of Jewish thought in the Renaissance and in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, among them Don Isaac Abravanel: An Intellectual Biography (2020), Skepsis and Antipolitics: The Alternative of Gustav Landauer (2022), Modern Jewish Thought on Crisis: Interpretation, Heresy, and History (2024).

Pascal Delhom is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany. His Ph.D. is on the third party in Levinas’s philosophy. Current areas of research are political and social philosophy, a phenomenology of injuries, and a philosophy of peace. Recent publications: “Simone Weil and Emmanuel Levinas on Human Rights and the Sense of Obligation toward Others,” Levinas Studies 15 (2021), “Zu den Facetten des Friedensbegriffes: theologische und philosophische Perspektiven” (2024), and “Paul Ricœur und die Hermeneutik des Zeugnisses: Ein close reading (2024).”

Oona Eisenstadt is Professor of Religious Studies and the Fred Krinsky Professor of Jewish Studies at Pomona College. In addition to many works on Levinas, she has published on Derrida, Rosenzweig, Blanchot, Shakespeare, and Plato. After twenty years in California, she remains a proud Canadian.

Warren Zev Harvey is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he has taught since 1977. He has written many studies on medieval and modern Jewish philosophy, including Physics and Metaphysics in Hasdai Crescas (1998). He was an EMET Prize laureate in the Humanities in 2009.

Annabel Herzog is Professor of Political Theory at the School of Political Science at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her research focuses on twentieth-century continental philosophy, exploring the connections between ethics and politics and between philosophy and literature. Her last book, Levinas’s Politics: Justice, Mercy, Universality (2020), was the recipient of the 2021 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Philosophy and Jewish Thought.

Christopher J. King is adjunct faculty at Toccoa Falls College and Johnson University. His research interests examine the intersections of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and theology. His recent publications include “Formative Encounters with the Other: Examining the Structural Differences between Bonhoeffer and Levinas” and “On the Conversion of Philosophy: The Problems and Promise of Emmanuel Falque’s Theology of Philosophy.”

Elad Lapidot is Professor for Jewish Thought at the University of Lille, France. His work is guided by questions concerning the relation between knowledge and politics. Among his publications are State of Others: Levinas and Decolonial Israel (forthcoming 2025), Politics of Not Speaking (forthcoming 2025), Jews Out of the Question: A Critique of Anti-Anti-Semitism (2020), and Heidegger and Jewish Thought: Difficult Others, edited with Micha Brumlik (2018).

Michael L. Morgan is Chancellor’s Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies (emeritus) at Indiana University and Senator Jerahmiel S. and Carole S. Grafstein Chair in Jewish Philosophy and Jewish Studies (emeritus) at the University of Toronto. He is the author and editor of twenty-two books, most recently The Oxford Handbook of Emmanuel Levinas, Levinas’s Ethical Politics, and Michael L. Morgan: History and Moral Normativity.

Michael Portal is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. His dissertation is titled “The Problem of Evil and Being in Levinas and Blanchot.”