Books

Here are some books I have written or edited:

Origins of the Other:

Emmanuel Levinas between

Revelation and Ethics

(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005),

pp. xiv + 268

This book was given the Morris D. Forkosch Prize

(of the Journal of the History of Ideas, for the

best first book of the year in intellectual history)

and a Koret Foundation Jewish

Studies Publication Program grant

A Holocaust Controversy:

The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France

(Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2005),

pp. xxiv + 220

This book was given the Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Prize

(of the German Studies Association, for the best book

over two years on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust in the widest context)

(ed. with intro.)

Pierre Rosanvallon,

Democracy Past and Future

(New York: Columbia University Press, 2006),

pp. xi + 294

(co-ed.)

The Modernist Imagination:

Intellectual History and Critical Theory

(Essays in Honor of Martin Jay)

(New York: Berghahn Books, 2008)

Projects

I am currently in the process of writing two books:

1) The Last Utopia:

A Recent History of Human Rights

and

2) A New Theory of Politics

Claude Lefort and Company

in Contemporary France

Some articles I have written, most related to the above projects,

are listed on a separate page.