About:
Prof. Avi Sagi

Academic Biography
1988 Ph.D., General Philosophy, Bar_Ilan University
1979 – present: Full professor at Bar-Ilan University since 1999. Started as Teaching assistant, advanced through the ranks
1999 – present: Founder and Director of Interdisciplinary Graduate Program for Hermeneutics
1987 – present: Senior Researcher Fellow, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem

Publications
Religion and Morality (with Daniel Statman), New York , 1995
Kierkegaard, Religion and Morality, New York , 2002
Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd, New York , ‏2003
A Challenge: Return to Tradition, Tel Aviv, ‏2003 (Heb)
Circles of Jewish Identity (with Zvi Zohar), Tel Aviv, 2000
`Elu va Elu` A Study on the Meaning of Halakhic Discourse, Tel Aviv, 1996
Editor of more than 20 books in contemporary Jewish Thought
Editor of Democratic Culture (with Y. Stern)

Fields of expertise
Continental Philosophy with special emphasis on Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Existentialism, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Halakh, Contemporary Jewish Philosophy