Elliott Wolfson Lecture—Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other

Elliot R. Wolfson is the Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and Distinguished Professor of Religion at University of California, Santa Barbara. A fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of several award-winning books including, Through A Speculum that Shines; Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menaḥem Mendel Schneerson; and A Dream Interpreted Within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis and the Prism of Imagination. In his new book, The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other, Wolfson intervenes in the current debate about Heidegger's relationship to Nazism and Jews from a unique perspective, as a scholar of Jewish mysticism and philosophy who has been profoundly influenced by Heidegger’s work.