'Saintliness in Wyschogrod's book is not a nostalgic return to premodern hagiography, but a postmodern expression of excessive desire: a desire on behalf of the Other that seeks the cessation of another's suffering and the birth of another ...

Graham Ward is Professor of Contextual Theology at the University of Manchester. Edith Wyschogrod is J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought Emerita at Rice University.

Through the figure of the "heterological historian", this text creates a framework for the understanding of history and the ethical duties of the historian.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.

"Spirit in Ashes is one book in contemporary philosophy that should be read aloud and taken to heart by any professional or intellectual who purports to have a conscience.

Edith Wyschogrod presents the first full-length study in English of the important contemporary French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas.

--Nelson, B. The games of life and dances of death.--Sleeper, R. The resurrection of the body.--Friedman, M. Death and the dialogue with the absurd.--Wyschogrod, E. Sport, death, and the elemental.

"The following is excerpted from an important study prepared by Professors David Berger, a historian and Michael Wyschograd, a philosopher. The title of the report is "Jews and "Jewish Christianity"".