Edith Wyschogrod (June 8, 1930"Edith Wyschogrod." ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Detroit: Gale, 2007. Accessed via ''Biography in Context'' database, 2016-10-04. – July 16, 2009) was an American philosopher. She received her A.B. from

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in 1957 and her Ph.D. from

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in 1970. Wyschogrod joined Rice's Religious Studies Department in 1992, as the

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Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought; she retired in 2002, and held the title of professor emeritus from 2003. Wyschogrod was a member of the

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(Fellow, 1999), a Guggenheim Fellow (1995-1996), and a fellow of the

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(1981). She served one term as president of the

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(1993).Past Presidents
. American Academy of Religion. Retrieved 2016-10-04. She authored five influential books on ethics.
, with remembrance written by Mark C. Taylor. ''The Chicago Blog''. August 25, 2009. University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 2016-10-04. Her work centered on ethical and philosophical themes such as justice and alterity; modern philosophy in light of technologically assisted mass death; and memory and forgetting. She was the wife of philosopher Michael Wyschogrod.Michael Wyschogrod, Dean of Orthodox Jewish Theologians, Dies at 87
. ''Tablet Magazine''. December 18, 2015. Retrieved 2022-11-27. She died July 16, 2009, in

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at the age of 79.

Books

Books authored *''Crossover Queries: Dwelling with Negatives, Embodying Philosophy's Others'' (New York:

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, Spring 2006), 561 pp. *''Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics'' (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1974), 222 pp.; second edition with new introduction (New York: Fordham University Press, 2000), 260 pp. *''An Ethics of Remembering: History, Heterology and the Nameless Others'' (Chicago:

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, 1998), 304 pp. *''Saints and Postmodernism: Revisioning Moral Philosophy'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), 300 pp. *''Spirit in Ashes: Hegel, Heidegger and Man Made Mass Death'' (New Haven:

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, 1985, pb. 1989), 247 pp. Books edited *''The Ethical: Blackwell Readings in Continental Philosophy'', co-edited with Gerald McKenny (London: Blackwell, 2002), 228 pp. *''The Enigma of Gift and Sacrifice'', introduction and co-edited with Jean-Joseph Goux and Eric Boynton (New York: Fordham University Press, 2001), 186 pp. *''Lacan and Theological Discourse'', co-edited with David Crownfield and

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(Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1989), 179 pp. *''The Phenomenon of Death: Faces of Mortality'', edited with introduction and bibliography (New York:

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, 1973), 200 pp.

Honors and awards

*Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999–2009 *Guggenheim Fellow, 1995-1996 *President, American Academy of Religion, 1993 *Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, September 1987, January 1988 *CUNY Faculty Research Travel Awards: summers 1982, 1983 (France, Germany, Italy); summer 1987 (France, Germany, Denmark, Norway); summer 1990 (France, Poland, Hungary, East Germany) *Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, January–June 1981

References

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