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A selection of his more important writings.
This volume of Marvin Fox's essays offers to a new generation of scholars of Jewish thought and philosophy a selection of his more important writings. The essays collected and presented here represent the selections of Dr. June Fox in consultation with the editor.
Professor Marvin Fox received his B.A. in philosophy in 1942 from Northwestern University, an M.A. in the same field in 1946, and a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1950 in that field as well. His education in Judaic texts was certified by rabbinical ordination as Rabbi by the Hebrew Theological College of Chicago in 1942. He served as a Jewish Chaplain in the US Army Air Force during World War II from 1942 to 1946. He taught at Ohio State University from 1948 through 1974, rising from Instructor to Professor of Philosophy. During those years he served also as Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Bar Ilan University (1970-1971). In 1974 he came to Brandeis University as Appleman Professor of Jewish Thought, and from 1976 onward he has held the Lown Professorship.
He has received numerous academic awards, lectured widely at universities and at national and international academic conferences and served as Member of the National Endowment for the Humanities National Board of Consultants for new programs at colleges and universities.
