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Gregory Kaplan
Rice University
Department of Religious Studies, MS-15
P.O. Box 1892
Houston, Texas 77251-1892
Phone: (713) 348-2778
[email protected]
Academic Employment
2002-present Anna Smith Fine Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Rice
University
2001-2002
Acting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Rice University
2001 Adjunct Instructor, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University
1998-1999
Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, University of San
Francisco
Education
2003 Ph.D. Stanford University, Department of Religious Studies
1992-1993
Research Fellow, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
1992 M.A. The University of Chicago, Divinity School
1990 B.A. Oberlin College, Department of Religion
Book Authored
Submitted
Hallowing Days: Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig Between
the Secular and the Sacred, in review.
In Preparation:
From Genes to Genealogies: The Natural Problem of Jewish Thought.
Book Chapters
Forthcoming “Ends of Israel: The Late Buber-Scholem Debate,” in The Mosaic
Distinction: Judaism after Political Theology, edited by Jerome Copulsky and
Randi Rashkover (Indiana University Press).
Forthcoming “Politics, Theology, Race, and Religion in the 1916-1924
Dialogue of Franz Rosenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy,” in The
Weimar Moment: Political Theology, Liberalism, and the Law, edited by
Len Kaplan and Rudy Koshar (Lexington Books).
Forthcoming “Antisemitism,” in the Encyclopedia of Religion in America, edited
by Charles Lippy (CQ Press).
Forthcoming “The Concept of God: Divine Immanence,” in Cambridge History
of Jewish Philosophy: The Modern Era, edited by Martin Kavka and David
Novak (Cambridge University Press).
Forthcoming “Secularism,” in the Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish Religion,
Culture, and History, edited by Judith R. Baskin (Cambridge University Press).
2010 “Introduction,” with William B. Parsons, in Disciplining Freud, edited by
Gregory Kaplan and William B. Parsons (Lexington Books, 2010), vii-xiii.
2010 “Freud and Philosophy of Religion after Metaphysics,” in Disciplining Freud
on Religion, edited by Gregory Kaplan and William B. Parsons (Lexington Books), 169179.
2009 “Sovereignty and Sacrifice in Writings by Franz Rosenzweig and Eugen
Rosenstock-Huessy,” in The Star and the Cross: Post-Nietzschean Revivals of Judaism
and Christianity, edited by Wayne Cristaudo and Frances Huessy (Cambridge Scholars
Press), 175-190.
2000 “Abrogation of Law and Custom” and “Holiness,” in the Reader’s Guide to
Judaism, edited by Michael Terry (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers), 5-6, 257-259.
In Preparation:
“Jewish Philosophy and Poetry of Love,” in Love in the Religions of the World, edited by Wayne
Cristaudo and Gregory Kaplan.
“How (Not) to Immanentize the Eschaton: A Modern Gnostic Problem,” in Hidden
Histories/ Hidden God, edited by April DeConick.
Books Edited
2010 Disciplining Freud on Religion, co-edited with William B. Parsons (Lexington
Books, in press, due August 2010). xiii + 224 pp.
In preparation:
Race and Political Theology, co-edited with Vincent Lloyd (advanced contract with Stanford
University Press, submitting for review May 30, 2010).
Love in the Religions of the World, co-edited with Wayne Cristaudo (advanced contract with
Australia Theological Forum Press, submitting for review June 30, 2010).
Book Reviews
2008 Peter Eli Gordon, Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German
Philosophy, in Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXII, 319-323.
2007 Martin Kavka, Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy, in Modern
Theology 23:1, 128-130.
2007 Eugene B. Borowitz, Studies in the Meaning of Judaism, in Association for
Jewish Studies Review 30:1 (April), 216-218.
2006 Edward Timms and Andrea Hammel, The German-Jewish Dilemma: From the
Enlightenment to the Shoah (Edwin Mellen Press, 1999), in Jewish Culture and History,
125-129.
2004 Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, Der frühe Walter Benjamin und Hermann Cohen, in
Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, January
http://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/rezensio/liste/kaplan.html
2000 Paul Mendes-Flohr, German Jews: A Dual Identity, online at H-Judaic, H-Net
Reviews, March
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=28387952719536
Refereed Articles
2006 “Ethics as First Philosophy and the Other's Ambiguity in the Dialogue of Buber
and Levinas,” Philosophy Today 50:1 (Spring): 40-57.
2004 “In the End Shall Christians Become Jews and Jews, Christians? On Franz
Rosenzweig’s Apocalyptic Eschatology,” Cross Currents 53:4 (Winter): 511-529.
In preparation:
“The Cunning of God and Divine Ruse in Maimonides’s Political Theology,” for
submission to Jewish Studies Quarterly.
“Responsibility beyond Shame and Guilt in Twentieth-Century Jewish Moral
Philosophy,” submitted to Journal of Religious Ethics.
Non-Refereed Writings
2004 Boonotes on Norbert Samuelson, A User’s Guide to Franz Rosenzweig’s Star of
Redemption, and Elliot Dorff and Louis E. Newman, ed., Contemporary Jewish
Theology: A Reader, in Religious Studies Review 30:2-3 (April, July), 218.
2003 Invited response to Paul Mendes-Flohr’s “The Desert Within and Social Renewal:
Martin Buber’s Vision of Utopia,” on The Web Forum of the Martin Marty Center at the
Advanced Institute for the Study of Religion, University of Chicago.
http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/webforum/022003/response_kaplan.shtml
2002 “Who is a Jewish Composer of New Concert Music?” solicited program essay for
public concert, Rice University, October 26, 6pp.
2002 Boonote on Leon Roth, Is There a Jewish Philosophy? Rethinking Fundamentals,
in Religious Studies Review 28:2 (April), 177.
2000 Booknote on Dan Avnon, Martin Buber: The Hidden Dialogue, in Religious
Studies Review 26:1 (January), 99-100.
Fellowships, Grants, and Honors
2008-2011
PI, Center for Cultural Judaism (NYC) Curriculum Development
Grant
2010 Participant, NEH Summer Seminar, “Human Perfection in Medieval
Jewish Philosophers,” Colgate University, June 27 – July 31
2007 Fellow, Rice Humanities Research Center Faculty Teaching Release
Fellowship, Rice University. Spring
2006 Finalist, Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, Rice University
2003 Participant, Interdisciplinary Workshop on Holocaust Research for Jewish
Studies Scholars, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Washington DC, 25-28
August
2002 Brown Foundation Teaching Grant, Rice University [$1,200]
2001-2009
Mosle Research Awards, Dean of Humanities, Rice University
2001-2002
Participant, Sarofim/NEH Faculty Seminar, Rice University
2001-2002
Hazel D. Cole Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Jewish Studies Program,
University of Washington (declined for position at Rice University)
1999-2000
Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowship, Stanford Humanities
Center, Stanford University
1997-1998
Jewish Community Endowment Newhouse Fund, Graduate
Fellowship, Stanford University
1995 Newhouse Foundation Summer Grant (in Israel), Stanford University
1993-1997
Reinhard Graduate Fellowship in Jewish Studies, Stanford
University
Academic Lectures (Refereed)
2010 “How (Not) to Immanentize the Eschaton: A Modern Gnostic Problem,”
paper at the 2010 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting,
Washington DC, September 2-5
2010 “From Levinas’s ‘Ethics and Spirit’ through Derrida’s ‘Violence and
Metaphysics’ to Infinity: Two Readings of Rosenzweig,” international conference of the
Société Internationale de Recherches Emmanuel Levinas and the North American
Levinas Society, Toulouse, France, July 4-9
2010 “Freud and Philosophy of Religion after Metaphysics,” at the Continental
Philosophy in the Desert conference, University of New Mexico, May 28-29
2009 “Martin Buber’s Ambivalence towards Israel and his Critique of Gershom
Scholem,” Philosophy of Religion and Study of Judaism Sections, Annual Meeting of
American Academy of Religion, Montréal, Canada, November 9
2006 “Biopolitics, Immanence, and Wages of Life,” Philosophy of Religion Section,
Annual Meeting of American Academy of Religion, Washington, D.C., November 20
2006 “Immanence or Biopolitics: Levinas, Agamben, and Wages of Ontology,” North
American Levinas Society Inaugural Conference, Purdue University, May 14
2004 “How Maimonides Solves the Problem of Truth and Justice with a Ruse,” Study
of Judaism Section, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio TX,
November 23
2004 “Heidegger and Rosenzweig on the 'Hermeneutics of Facticity,'“ Annual Meeting
of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Memphis TN, October 30
2004 “Towards a Theology of Culture in the Dialogue of Martin Buber and Paul
Tillich,” Philosophy of Religion and Theology Section, Southwest Commission on
Religious Studies, Irving TX, March 6
2003 “Franz Rosenzweig on Hallowing Daily Life,” Modern Jewish Thought Section,
Association for Jewish Studies, Boston MA, December 22
2003 “Franz Rosenzweig’s Dual Covenant Theology and Scriptural Hermeneutics,”
Philosophy of Religion and Theology Section, Southwest Commission on Religious
Studies, Irving TX, March 15
2002 “Poetic Justice, Prophetic Justice: Buber with and against Heidegger on
Language,” Modern Jewish Thought Section, Association for Jewish Studies, Los
Angeles CA, December 16
2002 “Responsibility Beyond Shame and Guilt in Twentieth Century Jewish
Philosophical Ethics,” Philosophy of Religion and Theology Section, Southwest
Commission on Religious Studies (regional AAR), Irving TX, March 10
2001 “‘Violence and Metaphysics’ from Spinoza to Buber and Rosenzweig,”
Philosophy of Religion and Theology Section, Western Regional American Academy of
Religion, Claremont CA, March 12
2000 “‘Everyday Religiosity’: How Do Rituals Transfigure Habitus?” Critical Theory
and Discourses on Religion Group, Annual Meeting of American Academy of Religion,
Nashville TN, November 20
2000 “The Shape of Things to Come: Buber and Rosenzweig on Hallowing Institutions
and Interpretations,” Study of Judaism Section, Annual Meeting of American Academy
of Religion, Nashville TN, November 19
2000 “On ‘Pious Lies’ in Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise,” Annual Western
Humanities Alliance Conference, Seattle WA, October 14
1999 “Law in Modern Jewish Philosophy,” Ethics Section, Western Regional American
Academy of Religion, San Francisco CA, March
1998 “Beyond Shame and Guilt in Modern Jewish Ethics,” Comparative Study of
Religion Group, American Academy of Religion, Orlando FL, November
1998 “The Fate of Place in Martin Buber’s Thought,” Jewish Thought panel, Western
Association for Jewish Studies, Los Angeles CA, March
Academic Lectures (Invited)
2010 “How (Not) to Immanentize the Eschaton: A Modern Gnostic Problem,”
paper at “Hidden God/Hidden Histories” conference, Rice University, April 15-18.
2009 “A Jewish Philosophy of Love,” paper at “Love in the Religions of the
World” conference, University of Hong Kong, China, October 23-26
2008 “The Problem of Evil in Jewish Thought after the Holocaust,” at University
of Houston–Clear Lake, November 3
2008 “Politics, Theology, Race, and Religion in the 1916-1924 Dialogue of
Franz Rosenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy,” paper at “The Weimar
Moment,” University of Wisconsin, October
2008 “Sustaining Sacrifice: Rosenzweig’s ‘I remain therefore a Jew’ and
Rosenstock-Huessy’s ‘I respond while I am changing,’” paper at “Eugen
Rosenstock-Huessy/ Franz Rosenzweig: Aspects of a Friendship,” Dartmouth
College, July
2008 “Immanence Reconsidered,” paper at “Movement of Nothingness” conference,
Honors College of the University of Houston, April 5
2007 “Heschel's Immanence,” paper at “Heavenly Torah: The Book and its Themes
through the Prism of a Generation,” Institute for the Study of Rabbinic Thought, Beit
Morasha, Jerusalem, Israel, December; at “Celebrating Heschel: 100 Years,” the Center
for Jewish Studies, Baylor University, November
2006 “Martin Buber: Sanctifying the Everyday,” paper, Center for Jewish Studies,
Baylor University, September
2006 “The Biopolitical Concept of Life in Martin Buber and Carl Schmitt,” paper at
“Ink and Blood: Textuality and the Human in Religion” conference, Dartmouth College,
July
2004 “The Legacy of Emil Fackenheim,” Holocaust Memorial Address, St. Francis
College, Brooklyn, April
2003 “Is Dialogue Immediate or Mediated? Martin Buber on the Presence of the
Other,” Society for Continental Philosophy in a Jewish Context, Boston, MA, November
2002 “Perspectives of Judaism,” paper for panel on “Religious Diversity, Religious
Tolerance,” Prairie View Texas A&M University, April
2001 “The Messiah is Here, the Kingdom is Now: Buber and Rosenzweig on
Redemption,” Department of Religious Studies, Rice University, January
2000 “The Messiah is Here, the Kingdom is Now: Buber and Rosenzweig on
Redemption,” Religious Studies Colloquium, May 3, and Jewish Studies Colloquium,
Stanford University, May 25
2000 “Hallowing Daily Life According to Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig,”
Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, January 13
Conference Activities
2010 Participant, Annual Conference of the Center for Cultural Judaism, Tulane
University, New Orleans LA, March
2009 Respondent, “Moral Repercussions of Creation in the Hebrew Bible and Jewish
Thought,” Philosophy of Religion and Theology Section, Southwest Commission on
Religious Studies, Irving TX, March
2009 Participant, Annual Conference of the Center for Cultural Judaism, University of
California, Los Angeles CA, March
2008 Respondent, “(Natural) Law and (Divine) Order in Ancient, Medieval and Early
Modern Jewish Thought,” Philosophy of Religion and Theology Section, Southwest
Commission on Religious Studies, Irving TX, March
2008 Participant, Annual Conference of the Center for Cultural Judaism, Graduate
Theological Union, Berkeley CA, March
2008 Organizer, “Rethinking Leo Strauss: Judaism, Politics, and Philosophy,” the
Rockwell Foundation Colloquium, Religious Studies Department, Rice University,
February 21
2007 Organizer and moderator, “How We Teach Judaism to Christian Students,”
Reflection on Teaching Section, Southwest Commission on Religious Studies
2007 Respondent, “Jewish Disputations: Texts and Contexts from Early Modern
to Recent Time,” Philosophy of Religion and Theology Section, Southwest
Commission on Religious Studies, Irving TX, March
2006 Respondent, “Enlightenment in Medieval, Early Modern, and Post-Holocaust
Jewish Thought,” Philosophy of Religion and Theology Section, Southwest Commission
on Religious Studies, Irving TX, March
2005 Respondent, “The Return of Midrash in Twentieth Century Jewish Thought,”
Philosophy of Religion and Theology Section, Southwest Commission on Religious
Studies, Irving TX, March
2004 Organizer with Dana Hollander, “Franz Rosenzweig and Continental Philosophy”
panel, Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy,
Memphis, October 2004.
2003 Chair, “Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Heidegger,” Modern Jewish Thought
Section, Association for Jewish Studies, Boston MA, 23 December
2003 Organizer with Jeffrey J. Kripal and William B. Parsons, “The Return of the
Repressed: Working through Freud in Religious Studies,” Rice University, December 5-
7; sponsors: Rockwell Fund, Center for the Study of Cultures, Dean of Humanities
2002 “The Jewish Composer of New Concert Music,” panel moderator, Rice University
and Jewish Community Center of Houston, October 24
Professional Service
Article referee for Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Book manuscript referee for University of Toronto Press (2009), Blackwell (2008),
University of Chicago Press (2006), Duquesne University Press (2003, 2006)
Reading Languages
German, Hebrew, French, Spanish
Professional Memberships
American Academy of Religion
Association of Jewish Studies
Levinas Research Seminar
Society for Continental Philosophy in a Jewish Context
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy