Edith Wyschogrod


Edith Wyschogrod was an American philosopher. She received her B.A. from Hunter College in 1951 and her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1970.
Wyschogrod joined Rice's Religious Studies Department in 1992, as the J. Newton Rayzor 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 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a fellow of the National Humanities Center. She served one term as president of the American Academy of Religion.
She authored five influential books on ethics. 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. She died July 16, 2009, in New York City at the age of 79.

Books

Books authored
  • Crossover Queries: Dwelling with Negatives, Embodying Philosophy's Others, 561 pp.
  • Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics, 222 pp.; second edition with new introduction, 260 pp.
  • An Ethics of Remembering: History, Heterology and the Nameless Others, 304 pp.
  • Saints and Postmodernism: Revisioning Moral Philosophy, 300 pp.
  • Spirit in Ashes: Hegel, Heidegger and Man Made Mass Death, 247 pp.
Books edited
  • The Ethical: Blackwell Readings in Continental Philosophy, co-edited with Gerald McKenny, 228 pp.
  • The Enigma of Gift and Sacrifice, introduction and co-edited with Jean-Joseph Goux and Eric Boynton, 186 pp.
  • Lacan and Theological Discourse, co-edited with David Crownfield and Carl Raschke, 179 pp.
  • The Phenomenon of Death: Faces of Mortality, edited with introduction and bibliography, 200 pp.

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