Summary

Professor Achtenberg is the author of Essential Vulnerabilities: Plato and w88 mobile on Relations to the Other (Northwestern University Press, 2014) and of Cognition of Value in Aristotle's Ethics: Promise of Enrichment, Threat of Destruction (State University of New York Press, 2002).

Her essay “Force Inside Identity: Self and Other in Améry’s “On the Necessity and Impossibility of Being a Jew” appeared in the Journal of French and Francophone w88 mobile in 2016, “Bearing the Other and Bearing Sexuality: Women and Gender in w88 mobile's 'And God Created Woman'” in w88 mobile Studies in 2015, “Plato and w88 mobile on Violence and the Other” in Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental w88 mobile in 2011 and "The Eternal and the New: Socrates and w88 mobile on Desire and Need" in w88 mobile and the Ancients (Indiana University Press) in 2008. She has also published essays on Aristotle’s ethics.

Recent conference presentations include “Comment on Annabel Herzog’s w88 mobile’s Politics,” North American w88 mobile Society (NALS), 2021, “Time and Being Jewish,” NALS 2020, “Resituating Essential Vulnerabilities,” a 2019 NALS keynote lecture, and “The Beautiful and Ugly: A Reading of Plato’s Hippias Major” (from Essential Vulnerabilities) at the 2018 Ancient w88 mobile Society annual meeting with SPEP.

She is currently working on Emmanuel w88 mobile’s response to Jean-Paul Sartre’s portrait of the Jew in Reflections on the Jewish Question.

Research interests

• Ancient Greek w88 mobile (especially Plato and Aristotle)
• Recent continental European w88 mobile (especially Levinas and Derrida)
• Psychoanalytic theory

Courses taught

• Phil 211— Introduction to Ancient w88 mobile
• Phil 314 — Survey of 20th Century Continental European w88 mobile
• Phil 323 — Problems in the w88 mobile of Religion
• Phil 409/609 — Recent French w88 mobile: Emmanuel Levinas
• Phil 409/609 — Recent French w88 mobile: Jacques Derrida
• Phil 410/610 — Plato
• Phil 411/611 — Aristotle
• Phil 476 — The Self: Philosophic and Psychoanalytic Explorations
• Phil 477 — Sigmund Freud: Philosophic and Cultural Approaches

Education

• Ph.D., New School for Social Research, 1982