Dr. Jeffrey Dudiak

Research interests

• Continental Philosophy of Religion and Ethics
• Philosophical Anthropology
• Philosophical Pneumatology

Current research projects

• working on a “little” book on truth, tentatively entitled In Spirit and in Truth
• working on the meaning and function of truth in the writings of Paul the Apostle

Selected publications

“Peace as Being Taught: The Philosophical Foundations of a Culture of Peace” in Levinas and Education, Denise Egéa-Kuehne, ed. (New York: Routledge).

“Religion with an Impure Heart: Levinas on Kierkegaardian Religion” in The Hermeneutics of Charity, J.K.A. Smith & H. Venema, eds. (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2004), pp. 185-196.

“Bienvenue: Just a moment” in Religion with/out Religion: The Prayers and Tears of John D. Caputo, J.H. Olthuis, ed. (London and New York: Routledge), pp. 7-19.

“The About-Face of Order” in Philosophy as Responsibility: Essays in Honour of Hendrik Hart, R. Kuipers & J. Wesselius, eds., (Lanham: University Press of America), pp. 117-125.

The Intrigue of Ethics: A Reading of the Idea of Discourse in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas (New York: Fordham University Press).

“In a Bind: Religion and Philosophical Discourse” invited article to Eidos, v. XVI, no. 1 (January 1999), pp. 157-178.

“Structures of Violence, Structures of Peace: Levinasian Reflections on Just-War and Pacifism” in Knowing Other-wise: Philosophy at the Threshold of Spirituality, J. Olthuis, ed. (New York: Fordham University Press, 1997), 159-171.

“Again Ethics: A Levinasian reading of Caputo reading Levinas” Joyful Wisdom: A Journal of Postmodern Ethics, Vol.3, no.2, 1997. Reprinted in: Knowing Other-wise: Philosophy at the Threshold of Spirituality, J. Olthuis, ed. (New York: Fordham University Press, 1997), pp. 172-213.