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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