Swift Hall 306 E
1025 E. 58th St.
Chicago, IL 60637

Tel: (773) 702-5084
Fax: (773) 702-8223
E-mail

Paul Mendes-Flohr

Professor of Modern Jewish Thought in the Divinity School; also in the Committee on Jewish Studies; Associate Faculty in the Department of History

Ph.D. (Brandeis University)

Paul Mendes-Flohr’s major research interests include modern Jewish intellectual history, modern Jewish philosophy and religious thought, philosophy of religion, German intellectual history, and the history and sociology of intellectuals. Together with Peter Schäfer, he serves as editor in chief of the twenty-two volume German edition of the collected works of Martin Buber, sponsored by the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He has recently written Jüdische Identität. Die zwei Seele der deutschen Juden, and is currently completing a biography of Franz Rosenzweig, as well as two additional books: Franz Rosenzweig and the Possibility of a Jewish Theology and Post-Traditional Jewish Identities (the Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures). He is the editor of a series on German-Jewish literature and Cultural History for the University of Chicago Press.

"The Desert Within and Social Renewal: Martin Buber's Vision of Utopia," Religion and Culture Web Forum, February 2003.