Michael Morgan

Indiana University

Michael L. Morgan is Emeritus Chancellor’s Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Indiana University (Bloomington).  He was the Horace W. Goldsmith Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies at Yale University in Fall 2009 and will be the Shier Distinguished Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto in Fall of 2010.  His most recent books include Discovering Levinas (Cambridge, 2007), The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy (Cambridge, 2007), which he edited with Peter Eli Gordon, and On Shame (Routledge, 2008).  He has recently completed several essays commissioned for volumes, “Mercy, Repentance, and Forgiveness in Ancient Judaism,” “Agencies of Redemption,” and “Spinoza’s Afterlife in Judaism and the Task of Modern Jewish Philosophy.”  He is currently working on The Cambridge Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas and Modern Jewish Philosophy, with Paul Franks, both for Cambridge University Press, and a book on contemporary Jewish philosophy, tentatively entitled Judaism in an Age of Naturalism: Jewish Philosophy after the Twentieth Century.