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    Paul Mar­cus

    Paul Mar­cus is a train­ing and super­vi­so­ry ana­lyst at the Nation­al Psy­cho­log­i­cal Asso­ci­a­tion for Psy­cho­analy­sis in New York City and Co-Chair­per­son of the dis­cus­sion group Psy­cho­analy­sis and Spir­i­tu­al­i­ty at the Amer­i­can Psy­cho­an­a­lyt­ic Asso­ci­a­tion. He is the author of Psy­cho­analy­sis and Toi­let­ing: Mind­ing One’s Busi­ness (Rout­ledge).

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    Claire Elise Katz
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    Samuel Moyn
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    Elliot R. Wolfson; Barbara E. Galli, fwd.
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    Kierkegaard and Lev­inas: Ethics, Pol­i­tics, and Religion
    J. Aaron Simmons and David Wood, eds.
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    Lev­inas’s Jew­ish Thought: Between Jerusalem and Athens
    Ephraim Meir
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    Await­ing a Mir­a­cle: The Holo­caust Diaries of Mor­ris Breitbart
    Arnold and Charles Breitbart, eds.
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    Emmanuel Lev­inas: His Life and Legacy
    Salomon Malka
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    Steven Shankman
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    Richard A. Cohen
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