Career
Ouaknin holds a doctorate in philosophy and is the Director of the Centre De Recherches Et Doctorate’études Juives in Paris. He is also a professor of comparative literature at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. His work is in the continental philosophical tradition and emphasizes concepts current in French intellectual life.
Unlike traditional rabbinic discourse, Ouaknin regularly cites thinkers outside the Jewish tradition, such as the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and the phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
