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Gregory Kaplan is the Anna Smith Fine Assistant Professor of Judaic
Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University. He
earned his A.M. from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. from Stanford
University. His field of specialization is modern Jewish philosophy, ethics
and culture. His interests include German-Jewish intellectual history
and philosophies of religion, education and music.
He is currently finishing a book-length manuscript tentatively titled
"Hallowing Days: The Secular and the Sacred for Martin Buber and
Franz Rosenzweig." He is also beginning a project on the problem
of evil in Judaic-inflected epistemology, moral education and political
theology whose working title is "The Cunning God of Modern Jewish
Thought: Ethics and Hermeneutics from Baruch Spinoza to Julia Kristeva."
More information is found on his web page: http://reli.rice.edu/faculty.cfm?doc_id=691
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