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Articles 1990-1999

"The Death of the Sign, the Rise of the Image in Merce Cunningham's Choreography, Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, vol 4, Philosophies of Religion, Art and Creativity, ed. Kevin I Stoehr (Bowling Green: Philosophy Documentation Center, 1999), pp. 219-29.

"Emmanuel Levinas and Hillel's Questions," in Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought, ed., Merold Westphal (Bloomington, IN, 1999), pp.229-245.


"Eating the Text, Defiling the Hands: Specters in Arnold Schoenberg's Opera, Moses and Aron," in God, the Gift and Postmodernism, eds., John D. Caputo and Michael J. Scanlon (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1999), pp. 245-259.

Afterword to Morris Wyszogrod, A Brush with Death: An Artist in the Death Camps, ( New York: State University of New York Press, 1999) pp. 235-247.
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"After the Holocaust: The Death of God and the Profaning of Texts," in The Death of God Movement and the Holocaust: Radical Theology Encounters the Shoah, eds. Stephen R. Haynes and John K. Roth (Westport, CN, Greenwood Press, 1999), pp.57-62.

Autobiographical essay, "Between Phenomenology and the Negative's Power," in Portraits of American Continental Philosophers ed. with photographs James R. Watson (Bloomington, IN: Indiana Universty Press, 1999), pp. 221-228.Contemporary Continental Philosophers in the United States: A Photogrammic Presentation, ed., J.L. Watson, in German translation by Verlag Turia + Kant in series "Neue Amerikanische Philosophie," 1999.

"Re-reading Neville: A Postmodern Perspective," in Critical Studies in the Thought of Robert C. Neville, eds.Nancy Frankenberry and J. Harley Chapman (Albany, NY:SUNY Press, 1999) pp.27-44.

"Trends in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy: Contexts of a Conversation," in Reasoning after Revelation: Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy, eds. Steven Kepnes, Peter Ochs and Robert Gibbs (Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1998), pp.123-136.

"Value" in Critical Terms in Religious Studies, ed. Mark C. Taylor; essays defining key themes in the field of religion ( Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 1998), pp.363-384.

"Religion as Life and Text," in The Craft of Religious Studies, ed. Jon Stone (New York: St. Martins Press, 1998), pp.240-258.

"Corporeality, and the Glory of the Infinite in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas," Proceedings of the conference of the Instituto di Studi Filosofici "Enrico Castelli," Rome, Italy, January 1998, LXIV, no.1-3: 113-126.

"Fear of Primitives, Primitive Fears: Anthropology in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas," in Emotion and Postmodernism, eds. Gerhard Hoffman and Alfred Hornung (Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 1997), pp. 401-420.

"Dwellers, Migrants, Nomads: Home in the Age of the Refugee," in The Longing for Home, ed. Leroy S. Rouner (Notre Dame IN: Notre Dame University Press, 1996), pp.187-203.

"The Demise of the Aufhebung and the Rise of the Between: From Ethics to Philosophy of Religion in Martin Buber," in the Proceedings of the conference of the Instituto di Studi Filosofici "Enrico Castelli," Rome, Italy, January 1996, LXIII, 1996, no. 1-3: 727-746.

"Towards a Postmodern Ethics: Corporeality and Alterity," in Ethics and Aesthetics: The Moral Turn in Postmodernism, ed. G. Hoffman and A. Hornung (Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 1996).

"Hellenism, Hasidism, Holocaust: A Postmodern View"in Interpreting Judaism in a Postmodern Age, ed. Steven Kepnes (New York: New York University Press, 1996), pp.301-24.

"The Art in Ethics: Aesthetics, Objectivity and Alterity in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas," in Ethics as First Philosophy, ed. Adriaan Peperzak, (New York: Routledge Press, 1995), pp. 137-148.

"Taking the Low Road: Postmodernism and Interreligious Conversation" a symposium on Robert Neville's theology in American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, XVI, 2, May, 1995: 189-198

"The Howl of Oedipus, the Cry of Heloise: From Asceticism to Postmodern Ethics," in Asceticism, eds. Vincent L. Wimbush and Richard Valantasis (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 16-32.

"Facts, Fiction, Ficciones: Truth in the Study of Religion," American Academy of Religion 1993, Presidential Address, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, LXII, 1, Spring, 1994: 1-16.

"Tainted Greatness: Depravity and Sacrifice in Jean Genet" in Tainted Greatness, ed. Nancy Harrowitz, ( Philadelphia:Temple University Press, 1994) pp. 253-276.

"From Ethics to Language: the Imperative of the Other," review essay of Re-Reading Levinas, eds. Robert Bernasconi and Simon Critchley (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991), pp.163-176.

"Killing the Cat: Beauty and Sacrifice in the Novels of Genet and Mishima," in special issue on sacrifice, Theology and Literature: 25, 2, Summer, 1993: 105-119.212-18, 1991.

Introduction and Afterword for symposium, "Trends in Postmodern Jewish Thought," Soundings, LXXVI, 1, Spring, 1993: 129-37; 191-6.

"Mind of the Critical Moralist: George Steiner as Jew in New England Review, 15, 2, Spring, 1993: 168-88. Reprinted in Reading George Steiner, eds. Nathan A. Scott Jr. and Ronald A. Sharp (Bltimore:Johns Hopkins Press, 1994) pp.151-179.

"Does Continental Ethics Have a Future?" in Ethics and Danger: Essays on Heidegger and Continental Thought, eds. Arlene Dallery, Charles E. Scott
(Albany:SUNY Press, 1992) pp.229-242.

"How to Say No in French: The Lineage of Negative Theology in Derrida," in Negation and Theology, ed. Robert C. Scharlemann ( Charlottesville VA:University of Virginia Press) 1992 pp.39-55; response to queries, pp.131-136.

Review Essay on Robert C. Neville, Recovery of the Measure (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1990) in Journal of Speculative Philosophy, V, 3: 212-18, 1991.

"Man-Made Mass Death: Shifting Concepts of Community," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, LVIII:2, pp. 165-176. (Text of plenary address, American Academy of Religion, November, 1989.)

"Stephen Laycock, a Phenomenological Whiteheadian?" in Phenomenological Inquiry, vol. 14, October, 1990, pp.17-25.Reprinted in Analecta Husserliana - From the Sacred to the Divine (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1994).

"Works that Faith: The Grammar of Ethics in Judaism," in Cross Currents, Fall, 1990: 176-193.