Gilad Sharvit

Biography

Gilad Sharvit is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Towson University. A scholar of Modern Jewish Philosophy and Late Modern European philosophy, Sharvit's interests lie also in political philosophy, German philosophy, psychoanalysis, and critical theory.

Professor Sharvit is the author of "Dynamic Repetition: History and Messianism in Modern Jewish Thought" (Brandeis UP, 2022), and "Therapeutics and Salvation: Freud and Schelling on Freedom" (Magnes Press, 2021) (in Hebrew). He also co-edited the volumes "Modern Jewish Thought on Crisis: Interpretation, Heresy, and History" (De Gruyter, 2024), “Canonization and Alterity: Heresy in Jewish History, Thought, and Literature” (De Gruyter, 2020), and “Freud and Monotheism: The Violent Origins of Religion” (Fordham University Press, 2018).

Professor Sharvit teaches a range of courses at Towson in Jewish and European philosophy, including: RLST 211: Introduction to Jewish Thought; Phil 353: Philosophy of Religion; Phil 205: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud; and Phil 329: Late Modern Philosophy. He is also a faculty member of the Graduate Program in Judaic Studies, where he teaches courses on Jewish philosophy and Zionism.