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Asaf Angermann

Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Philosophy and Religion

Email: Asaf.angermann@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 2012
    Major: Philosophy and Historical Sciences
    Dissertation: Damaged Irony: Kierkegaard, Adorno, and the Negative Dialectics of Critical Subjectivity.
  • MA, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, 2006
    Major: Philosophy and Culture Studies
  • BA, Tel Aviv University, 2003
    Major: Philosophy

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • PHIL 3050 - Judaism and Religious Diversity, 1 course.
  • PHIL 3350 - Twentieth Century Philosophy, 1 course.
  • PHIL 3600 - Philosophy of Religion, 1 course.
  • PHIL 5900 - Special Problems, 1 course.
  • PHIL 6960 - Semester in Problems of Philosophy, 1 course.

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Angermann, A. (2021). Theodor W. Adorno and Gershom Scholem: Correspondence, 1939 - 1969. 464 pp. Cambridge, UK and Medford, MA, Polity. https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=correspondence-1939--1969--9781509510450
  • Angermann, A. (2017). Theodor W. Adorno: Education to Maturity and Responsibility חינוך לעצמאות מחשבתית [Hebrew]. 265 pp. Tel Aviv, HaKibbutz HaMeuchad. https://www.kibutz-poalim.co.il/erziehung_zur_mundigkeit
  • Angermann, A. (2015). Theodor W. Adorno and Gershom Scholem: "Der liebe Gott wohnt im Detail" - Briefwechsel. 548 pp. Berlin, Suhrkamp. https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/der-liebe-gott-wohnt-im-detail-briefwechsel-1939-1969-t-9783518586174
  • Angermann, A. (2014). Beschädigte Ironie: Kierkegaard, Adorno und die negative Dialektik kritischer Subjektivität [Damaged Irony: Kierkegaard, Adorno, and the Negative Dialectic of Critical Subjectivity]. 301 pp. Berlin and Boston, MA, De Gruyter. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110308570

    • Book Chapter

  • Angermann, A. (2021). Introduction: Adorno and Scholem, Correspondence. Theodor W. Adorno and Gershom Scholem: Correspondence 1939-1969. vii-xliii (38 pages). Cambridge, UK and Medford, MA, https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=correspondence-1939--1969--9781509510450
  • Angermann, A. (2020). Tsimtsum as Eclipse: Anthropomorphism and Transcendence in Buber and Horkheimer. Tsimtsum and Modernity: Lurianic Heritage in Modern Philosophy and Theology. pp. 223-241. Berlin and Boston, MA, De Gruyter. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110684353
  • Angermann, A. (2020). Adorno and Scholem: The Heretical Redemption of Metaphysics. The Blackwell Companion to Adorno. pp. 531-547. Chichester, West Sussex and Malden, MA, Wiley-Blackwell. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/A+Companion+to+Adorno-p-9781119146919

    • Book Review

  • Angermann, A. (2023). Martin Shuster, How to Measure a World? A Philosophy of Judaism. Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 90 (3) pp. 757-760. https://academic.oup.com/jaar/article-abstract/90/3/757/7128235
  • Angermann, A. (2021). German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus. By Marc David Baer. Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 89 (4) 1475–1478. https://academic.oup.com/jaar/article-abstract/89/4/1475/6428523
  • Angermann, A. (2017). Working Through Collective Memory - Jeffrey Andrew Barash: Collective Memory and the Historical Past. Journal of the History of Ideas - Book Forum Blog. https://www.jhiblog.org/2017/04/28/working-through-collective-memory/

    • Journal Article

  • Angermann, A. (2024). Du Bois, Marx, and the Jewish Question Reconsidered. Critical Philosophy of Race. 12 (1) pp. 51-82. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51600
  • Angermann, A. (2019). The Diremption of Love: Gillian Rose on Agency, Mortality, and Hegelian Feminism. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. 34 (2) pp. 309-328. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hypatia/article/abs/diremption-of-love-gillian-rose-on-agency-mortality-and-hegelian-feminism/92074B012F32644F8C684DB140FCECF5
  • Angermann, A. (2015). The Ghosts of Normativity: Temporality and Recurrence in Adorno’s Ethics of Dissonance. The Germanic Review. 90 (4) pp. 260-272. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00168890.2015.1096165
  • Angermann, A. (2015). The Exile of Metaphysics: Adorno and the Language of Political Experience. Naharaim: Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History. 9 (1-2) pp. 179-194. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/naha-2015-0007/html
  • Angermann, A. (2014). Redemption ex negativo. Critical Theory and the History of Mystical Heresy. Bamidbar: Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy. (Vol. 4.1) 7-20.