EUME
2006/ 2007

Oded Schechter

The Genealogy of Hebrew: A Critical Investigation Concerning the Formation of a Space between the Christian and Jew as a Metaphysical Ground of a Colonial Project

is a Talmudic scholar and a philosopher. After seven years of studies in different Yeshivas in Jerusalem, he studied History and Philosophy of Sciences and Ideas at Tel-Aviv University. He received his PhD from the Committee on Social Thought of the University of Chicago for his thesis entitled Temporality and Freedom: Ontological Inquiries into Ethics. Oded Schechter has had several teaching assignments at Tel Aviv University, the University of Chicago, and at Yale University. Among his publications are the scholarly articles The Logic of Speculative Philosophy and Skepticism in Maimon's Philosophy, Teitelboim’s Babel: Between Aramaic and the Sacred Language and Absolute Auschwitz and Spinoza: The Ontological-Metaphysical ground of National Secularism.

The Genealogy of Hebrew: A Critical Investigation Concerning the Formation of a Space between the Christian and Jew as a Metaphysical Ground of a Colonial Project

Schechter's ongoing work investigates The Genealogy of Hebrew: A Critical Investigation Concerning the Formation of a Space between the Christian and Jew as a Metaphysical Ground of a Colonial Project.