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Randy L. Friedman

Associate Professor

Judaic Studies

Background

Selected Publications

  • “Alterity and Asymmetry in Levinas’s Ethical Phenomenology,” Journal of Scriptural Reasoning 13, 1 (2014).
  • “Religious Self-Reliance,” The Pluralist 7, 1 (2012): 27 – 53.
  • “Traditions of Pragmatism and the Myth of the Emersonian Democrat,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 43, 1 (2007): 154 – 184.

    Education

    • PhD, Brown University
    • BA, Yale University

    Research Interests

    • Modern Jewish Thought
    • American Philosophical and Religious Thought
    • Continental Philosophy of Religion

    Teaching Interests

    • Philosophy of Religion
    • American Judaism
    • Modern Jewish Thought
    • Early Zionist Thought

    Awards

    • SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
    • NYS/UUP Individual Development Award, Binghamton University
    • Spring 2014 Faculty Fellowship with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), "Gods of Becoming"

    Research Profile