1 CURRICULUM VITAE 2020 Richard Ira Sugarman Professor of Religion University of Vermont EDUCATION B.A., Yale College, 1966, cum laude (Philosophy). M.A., Yale University, 1969 (Philosophy). Ph.D., Boston University, 1976 (Philosophy). Doctoral Dissertation: "Toward the Phenomenology of Ressentiment" ACADEMIC POSITIONS 1966-1967 Instructor of Philosophy, as Carnegie Fellow in Philosophy, Yale College. 1970-1971 Part Time Instructor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of Vermont. 1971-1974 Instructor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of Vermont. 1974-1976 Instructor, Department of Religion, University of Vermont. 1976-1985 Assistant Professor of Religion, Department of Religion, University of Vermont. 1978 Awarded Tenure, Department of Religion, University of Vermont. 1986-2002 Associate Professor of Religion, Department of Religion, University of Vermont. 2002- Professor of Religion, Department of Religion, University of Vermont. 2 ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS (all at the University of Vermont) 1982 Associate Director, Experimental Program, College of Arts and Sciences 1980-1988 Associate Director, Integrated Humanities Program 1982-1983 Acting Director, Integrated Humanities Program 1982 Acting Chair, Spring Semester, Department of Religion 1989-2014 Director, Integrated Humanities Program PUBLICATIONS MAJOR WORKS: Rancor Against Time: The Phenomenology of Ressentiment. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1980. Reclaiming the Humanities: The Roots of Self-Knowledge in the Greek and Biblical Worlds, co-authored with R.T. Simone. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986. Edition and annotation of John Wild, “Speaking Philosophy” (Commentary on E. Levinas, Totality and Infinity) in Phenomenological Inquiry 24 (2000), 205-92. The Promise of Phenomenology: Posthumous Papers of John Wild, edited and annotated with R.B. Duncan. Lexington Books, 2006. (2013) eBook, The Promise of Phenomenology: Posthumous Papers of John Wild Levinas and the Torah: A Phenomenological Approach, Richard Sugarman, SUNY Press, 2019. Levinas and the Torah: A Phenomenological Approach, Richard Sugarman, SUNY Press Paperback scheduled for July 2020. ARTICLES: "To Love the Torah More Than God," translation of a chapter of Emmanuel Levinas’ Difficile Liberté, with H.A. Stephenson, with a commentary by R. Sugarman, in Judaism, Spring, 1979, pp. 79- 86. 3 "There Are Natural Rights Deserving of Legal Protection," Vermont Law School Publication Series, (Environmental Law Center) v. 1 no. 2, South Royalton, Vermont, Fall 1980, pp. 11-17. "The Phenomenology of Disability," with W.D. Roth, Rehabilitation Literature, v. 45/11-12, (Nov-Dec 1984) 366-369. "Questioning Levinas: A Response to Bezalel Naor, "Orot: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Judaism,” 1991, pp. 12-18. "Introduction" to Leaping Souls: Rabbi Menachem Mendel and the Spirit of Kotsk by Chaim Feinberg. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav Publishing House, Inc, 1993, xv-xviii. Reprinted in The Bulletin for Orthodox Jewish Teachers, edited by R. Aaron Lichtenstein, Winter 1994. “Between Philosophy and Chassidus; Questioning, Answering and Responding,” Jewish Journal, 11 (Fall 1999), p. 12. “Introduction: Levinas in a Humanistic Context,” Phenomenological Inquiry (2000), vol. 24, pp. 7-13. “Notes Toward a Metaphysics of Otherness: Reflections on Levinas and the Humanities,” Phenomenological Inquiry, (2000), pp. 65-80. “A Jewish Response to Philosophical Questioning: Reflections on Emmanuel Levinas and the Holocaust,” in Reflections on the Holocaust: Festschrift for Raul Hilberg on his 75th Birthday, edited by Wolfgang Mieder and David Scrase. Burlington, VT: Center for Holocaust Studies, 2001, pp. 211-222. “Emmanuel Levinas: The Ethics of “Face to Face”/ The Religious Turn,” Phenomenology World-Wide, ed. Anna Teresa Tymieniecka. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. In vol. LXXX of Analecta Husserliana, pgs.409-430. “Rabbi Michoel Dov Weissmandel and the Holiness of Rescue: Jewish Religious Perspectives and Responses,” Making a Difference edited by David Scrase, Wolfgang Mieder, and Katherine Quimby Johnson. The Center for Holocaust Studies, 2004. pp. 187-216. “The Ethics of Mourning.” Book review. By R. Clifton Spargo. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Bulletin for Holocaust Studies, Vol. 10 no.1. “Experience,” with WD Roth; “Encyclopedia of Disability,” Vol.2, Gary L. Albrecht, General Editor, 2006, Sage Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA. 4 “The Deformalization of Time in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas,” in The Logos of Phenomenology and the Phenomenology of the Logos, pgs 253-270, ed. Anna Teresa Tymieniecka. Springer, 2006. “The Malach’s (Angel’s) Son: Rav Zalman Levine Ha Cohen.” Yated Ne’Eman Vol. 19 No.27, Monsey, NY. July 2007. Book review. Samuel Moyn. Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas Between Revelation and Ethics. Cornell University Press. 2005. Journal of Modern History. March 2008. “Making Time for Others.” N’Shei Chabad Magazine. Published Summer 2008. “Recollections of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.” Kafar Chabad Magazine. Interview (In Hebrew) Winter 2009. Kafar Chabad, Israel. “Wild and Levinas:” Legacy and Promise Continental Philosophy Review” #44 Springer Verlag Summer, 2011, 309-316 “Messianic Temporality: Preliminary Reflections on Ethical Messianism and the Deformalization of Time in Levinas” appearing in Recherches Levinassiennes; ed. R. Burrggreave et.al. Series Bibliotheque Philosophique de Louvain, 82, 421- 436, Peeters Publishers, Leuven, Belgium, 2012 “The Breakup of Totality and the Promise of Time in Thought of Emmnanuel Levinas” appearing in Levinas Autrement, ed. R. Burggreave et. al. Series Bibliotheque Philosophique de Louvain, 83, 445-460. Peeters Publishers, Leuven, Belgium, 2012 "The Notion of the 'Face' in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas." Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception for "Verlag Walter de Gruyter." Editors Hans-Josef Klauck et al., 2013 “Through the Lens of Levinas: Reflections on Holiness” In Levinas Studies: an Annual Review, Volume 8, 129-143, 2013 “Toward a Rationality of Transcendence: The Importance of Emmanuel Levinas to Contemporary Jewish Thought” A Perennial Spring, Downhill Press: Jerusalem, New York, Feschrift in honor of Rabbi Norman Lamm, ca. 20 printed pages. Published 2014, 2015 “Political Phenomenology- Pure and Applied: John Wild and Emmanuel Levinas on the Political.” Political Phenomenology, pp. 145-170 Hwa Yol Jung & Lester Embree, eds. Center For Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Springer Verlag. Published 2016. 5 “The Importance of Alphonso Lingis in Introducing Levinas to America.” Pp. 77-90 Passion in Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Alphonso Lingis. Ed. Randolph Wheeler Lexington Books. Published 2017. “Is Ethics Possible in Contemporary American Political Life?” Sociology n.3 / 2017 Quarterly magazine of Historical and Social Sciences Edited by Andrea Bixio. Published 2017. “On the Importance of Importance” found in The Event of the Good, Essays in Honor of Richard A. Cohen, ed. Prof. James McLachlan at Western Carolina University. Submitted to SUNY Press for review. ACADEMIC LECTURES: "Ressentiment in Dostoevsky's Notes From the Underground," Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Spring, 1977. "In Defense of the Concept of Natural Right," Vermont Council on the Humanities, Vermont Law School, Spring, 1978 (televised). "Is Ethics First Philosophy?: Reflections on the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Ottawa, November 1980. "The Jewish Concept of Time," Middlebury College, March 1981. “A Comment on Plato’s Alcibiades II,” University Seminar with Michel Foucault, 1983. "Work and Religion in Israel," Keynote Address, International Convention of Poale Agudath Israel, New York City, February, 1984. "The Exodus as a Paradigm for Revolution," Opening Address, University of Vermont Colloquium on "Religion and Revolution: Compatible or Contradictory?" October, 1984. "Religion in the Age of Nihilism," New York State Center for Government, Albany, New York, April 1987. "The Philosophy of Infinity," Division of Humanities, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, April 1987. "Philosophy, Society, and the Environment," John F. Kennedy School for Government, Harvard University, November 1989. "On the 50th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising," University of Vermont, April 1993. "Time and the Other in Judaism," U.S. Military Academy at West Point, September 1994. 6 “Biography and the Paradox of Self-knowledge; a Phenomenological Approach,” Colloquium on the Phenomenology of Boundaries, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, April 1998. “Reflections on the Study and Teachings of the Humanities in Undergraduate Education,” The Sixth National Conference on Residential Colleges and Living/Learning Programs, Burlington, Vermont, October 1998. “The Metaphysics of Diversity: Emmanuel Levinas and the Future of Humanities,” Conference on Emmanuel Levinas and the Future of the Humanities, University of Vermont, March 7, 2000. “The Breakup of Totality and the Promise of Time in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas.” International Conference "Levinas in Jerusalem. Philosophical Interpretations and Religious Perspectives," Hebrew University, May 20-23, 2002. “Preliminary Reflections on the Deformalization of Time,” (Moderator-“Alterity, Subjectivity, and Time in Levinas”) International Conference “Third World Conference of Phenomenology,” Oxford University, August 18-21, 2004. “Preliminary Reflections on Ethical Messianism and the Deformalization of Time in the Thought