Issues of 'otherness', hermeneutics, phenomenology and existentialism; ongoing dialogues with deconstruction and pragmatism.
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“Plus de Secret: The Paradox of Prayer” in The Phenomenology of Prayer, Bruce Benson and Norman Wirzba eds. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005) “God and the Other Person: Levinas’s Appropriation of Kierkegaard’s Encounter with Otherness.”Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, vol. 75, 2001.
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“Situating Levinas within the Intersubjective Dialogue.” Addressing Levinas: Ethics, Phenomenology, and the Judaic Tradition. October 15-17, 1999, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
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