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Bettina Bergo

5 Publications

I don't see color

Bettina Bergo, Tracey Nicholls (eds)

Pennsylvania State University Press - State College

2015

A collection of essays weaving together theoretical insights from philosophy, sociology, economics, psychology, literature, and history, as well as the authors' personal narratives, to examine the forms and persistence of white privilege

The trauma controversy

Bettina Bergo, Kristen Brown Golden (eds)

SUNY Press -

2009

Judeities : questions for Jacques Derrida

Bettina Bergo

Fordham University Press - New York City

2007

What is it to be a Jew and a philosopher? How has the notion of "Jewish identity" been written into and across Jewish literature, Jewish thought, and Jewish languages? This title addresses these questions, contrasting Derrida's thought with philosophical predecessors such as Rosenzweig, Levinas, Celan, and Scholem. .

On escape

Emmanuel Levinas

Stanford University Press - Stanford-le-Hope

2003

First published in 1935, On Escape represents Emmanuel Levinas's first attempt to break with the ontological obsession of the Western tradition. In it, Levinas not only affirms the necessity of an escape from being, but also gives a meaning and a direction to it.

Husserl at the limits of phenomenology

Leonard Lawlor, Bettina Bergo (eds)

Northwestern University Press - Evanston, IL

2002

A glimpse into Maurice Merleau-Ponty's nuanced reading of Husserl and his effort to track the genesis of truth through the idealization of language. It combines Merleau-Ponty's notes on Husserl's "Origin of Geometry", his "Course Summary", related texts, and essays by the co-translators.

5 Publications