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Claire Katz
Education
Ph.D., University of Memphis, 1999. Field: Philosophy
M.A., University of Memphis, 1995. Field: Philosophy
M.A.T., Montclair State College, 1987. Field: Teaching/ Philosophy for Children
B.A., University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1986. Field: Philosophy
Contemporary French Philosophy
Feminist Theory, Modern Jewish Thought
Philosophy of Education
Philosophy of Religion
Claire Katz works on contemporary continental philosophy, philosophy of education, ethics, philosophy of religion, and modern Jewish thought. Her work focuses on the intersection of philosophy and religion, with specific interests in contemporary French philosophy and French feminist theory. She is the author of Levinas, Judaism, and the Feminine: The Silent Footsteps of Rebecca (Indiana 2003) and the editor of Emmanuel Levinas: Critical Assessments vol. 1-4 (Routledge, 2005). She regularly teaches courses in Gender and Religion and Feminist theory and she has written extensively on feminist theory, philosophy of religion, philosophy of education, and Emmanuel Levinas's ethical project.Her book, Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism (Indiana U Press, January 2013), Her response turns to modern Jewish thought and its alternative views of subjectivity and ethics in order to challenge our current models of education.
Claire Katz
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies
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E-Mail: ckatz@philosophy.tamu.edu
Current Course Schedule
On leave, 2011-2012