Faculty
Abi Doukhan
Associate Professor
Philosophy Department
Ph.D. University of Paris
Office: Powdermaker Hall 350N
PhilPeople Profile
Area of expertise: Emmanuel Levinas, 20th Century Continental Ethics, Post-Holocaust Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, Jewish philosophy, Hebrew Wisdom Literature, Womanist philosophy.
Abi Doukhan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY), and holds the Pearl and Nathan Halegua Family Initiative in Ethics and Tolerance. She holds a Masters in philosophy from the Sorbonne and a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Nanterre, Paris, France. Her recent publications include Emmanuel Levinas: A Philosophy of Exile (Bloomsbury, October 2012), and Biblical Portraits of Exile (Routledge, June 2016).
Books
Biblical Portraits of Exile: A Philosophical Reading (Routledge, 2016), 155 p.
Emmanuel Levinas: A Philosophy of Exile (Bloomsbury, 2012), 162 p.
Journal Articles
“Beyond Intentionality: Towards an Ethical Sinngebung,” Philosophy Today, 58 (3): 427-440.
“Emmanuel Levinas’ Epistemology: From Justification to Justice,” Philosophy Today, 57 (1): 28-41. Translated into Spanish as “La epistemologia de Emmanuel Levinas: De la justificacion a la justicia,” Spanish translation by Juan Carlos Aguirre Garcia, in Anuario Colombiano de Fenomenologia, Vol. 8, 2014.
“Beyond Haverut: A Levinasian View on Interfaith Hermeneutics,” Levinas Studies 8 (1): 99-113.
“From Exile to Hospitality: A Key to the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas,” Philosophy Today, 54 (3): 235-246.
Chapters in Books
“The Hospitality of Abraham: Reflections on a Levinasian Approach to Inter-faith dialogue,” in The Three Sons of Abraham: Interfaith Encounters Between Judaism,Christianity and Islam, I.B. Taurus and Co., 2014, 81-93.