Edith Wyschogrod academic papers
Content Description
Print material of works in the formats of lectures, talks, reprints, correspondence, professional notes, and philosophy department notes. Also includes floppy discs, audiocassettes, several CD-Rs, and some color photographs of material for publications.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1969-2010
Creator
- Wyschogrod, Edith (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This material is open for research.
Conditions Governing Access
Stored offsite at the Library Service Center and require 24-hour notice for retrieval. Please contact the Woodson Research Center at 713-348-2586 or woodson@rice.edu for more information.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish from the Edith Wyschogrod academic papers, 1969-2010, UA 0458 must be facilitated through the copyright holder. The Woodson Research Center use policy is that researchers assume sole responsibility for any infringement of privacy, literary rights, copyrights, or other rights arising from their use of the archival materials. Contact woodson@rice.edu for further information.
Biographical / Historical
Edith Wyschogrod (1930-2009) was an American philosopher and a member of Rice’s Religious Studies Department from 1992 to 2002. Wyschogrod received a B.A. from Hunter College in 1951 and a PhD from Columbia University in 1970. Prior to her tenure at Rice, Wyschgrod taught at Queens College, City University of New York from the early 1970s until 1992. Her works focus primarily on ethics, focusing on themes such as justice, memory, the ethics of man-made mass death, as well as the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. She was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow and a National Humanities Center Fellow (Source: “Edith Wyschogrod.” Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2007.)
Extent
4 Linear Feet (4 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collections consists of Wyschogrod's academic and professional works focused on ethical and philosophical themes such as justice and alterity, modern philosophy, and memory and forgetting. Formats include letters, transcripts of lectures, notes, floppy discs, and correspondence.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by the family of Edith Wyschogrod.
- Title
- Guide to the Edith Wyschogrod academic papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Sylvia Podwika
- Date
- 2024
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston Texas 77005 USA
713-348-2586
woodson@rice.edu