Prof. Arnold I. Davidson

Distinguished Visiting Professor of Humanities

ffiorentina@uchicago.edu Researcher Page:  http://philosophy.uchicago.edu/faculty/davidson.html

 

Research interests: Modern and Contemporary Jewish Philosophy, including the philosophy of Modern Orthodox Judaism (Rav Soloveitchik, Rav Lichtenstein, and others), and the relationship between French philosophy and Jewish Thought (Jacob Gordin, Léon Askénazi, Emmanuel Lévinas, Vladimir Jankélévitch, and others); Historical, Literary, Philosophical and Theological Dimensions of the Shoah; The tradition of spiritual exercises (exercises of self-formation and self-transformation) in the history of philosophy and the history of Judaism