Publications

Academic books; as author (IBa)

(2015). Arendt, Levinas and A Politics of Relationality. Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political. Assiter A., van der Zweerde E. (Eds.), London: Rowman & Littlefield International.

Academic books; as editor (IBe)

(2018). Ethics for Psychologists: A Global and Case-Based Approach. Editor: A. Topolski. Sage Publishing.

(2016). Is there a Judeo-Christian Tradition? A European Perspective. (Topolski, A., Ed., Nathan, E., Ed.). De Gruyter.

Editor of book series internationally reviewed press; as editor (ITe)

(2025-30) Cambridge University Press Elements Series on Race and Religion. 50 Volumes.

Editor of special issues of journals in internationally reviewed academic journals

(2024). The Caribbean Dossier: Shifting the Geographies of Reason. Special Dossier of Krisis. Vol 44 No. 1.

(2022) The Intersection of Race in Religion in African Political Communities.  Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies. Co-edited with Josias Tembo. Vol 48, issue 3

(2020) Jean Bodin and the Sovereignty of Exclusion. Political Theology. Co-edited with James Renton.  Issue 6, Volume 21.

(2020) Judith Butler’s Parting Ways. The European Legacy. Co-edited with Louis Klee. Response by Judith Butler. Volume 25, Issue 3.

Articles in internationally reviewed academic journals (IT)

(2024). The Race Religion Constellation. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. Ed. John Solomos. Section: Histories/Origins, Ed. Nasar Meer. Forthcoming.

(2023) Unsettling Man in Europe: Wynter and The Race-Religion Constellation.  Religions. Special Issue: Race-Religions Constellations: Antisemitism, Islamophobia and Antiblackness. Ed. Patricia Schor and Luis Manuel Hernandez Aguilar. 15(1):43.

(2022) Exploring the Entanglement of Race and Religion in Africa. Co-author: Josias Tembo. Special Issue of Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies on the Intersection of Race in Religion in African Political Communities. Co-edited with Josias Tembo.

(2020) The Dangerous Discourse of the ‘Judeo-Christian’ Myth: Masking the Race-Religion Constellation in Europe. Patterns of Prejudice. Genealogies of ‘Jews’ and ‘Muslims’: Social Imaginaries in the Race–Religion Nexus. A special issue guest-edited by Yolande Jansen and Nasar Meer Volume 54. Issue 1 & 2. 71-90.

(2020) Bodin Now; or, What’s Wrong With Intellectual History? Special Issue of Political Theology on Jean Bodin’s and the Sovereignty of Exclusion. Co-edited with James Renton. Issue 6, Volume 21, 2020. 475-478.

(2020) Parting Ways or Ways to Cohabitation – Introduction with Louis Klee. Special Issue of The European Legacy Judith Butler’s Parting Ways or Ways of Cohabitation. Guest Editors with Louis Klee.  Volume 25, Issue 3. 234-247.

(2020) Rejecting the Rhetoric of Uniqueness: The First Step Towards Semitic Solidarity. Jewish Quarterly 27. 298-318.

(2019) Nation-States, the Race-Religion Constellation, and Diasporic Political Communities: Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler, and Paul Gilroy. The European Legacy Judith Butler’s Parting Ways or Ways of Cohabitation. Anya Topolski & Louis Klee (ed.).  Vol 25, Iss 3. 266-281.

(2018) The Race-Religion Intersection: A European Contribution to the Critical Philosophy of Race. Critical Philosophy of Race. Vol. 6. Issue 1.

(2017) Good Jew, Bad Jew: ‘Managing’ Europe’s Others. Ethnic and Racial Studies. Special issue ‘Islamophobia and Surveillance: Genealogies of a Global Order’. James Renton (Ed.).

(2017). The Islamophobic Inheritance of the Resurrected Saint Paul: From F.C. Baur’s Judeo-Christianity to Badiou and Žižek’s Event. ReOrient: Journal of Critical Muslim Studies. II, No. 1.

(2016). Tzedakah: The True Religion of Spinoza’s Tractatus? History of Political Thought, 37(1), 78-106.

(2014). Spinoza’s True Religion: The Modern Origins of a Contemporary Floating Signifier. Societate si Politica, 8(1), 41-59.

(2014). Relationality: An Ethical Response to the Tensions of Network Enabled Operations in the Kunduz Airstrikes. Journal of Military Ethics, 13(2), 158-173.

(2014). Relationality as a ‘Foundation’ for Human Rights: Exploring the Paradox with Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas. Theoria and Praxis. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Thought, 2(1), 1-17.

(2013). Power, Peace and the Political: Arendt’s Alternative to Perpetual Peace. Journal of Peace Studies, 6(3), 57-68.

(2012). Gendering the Contemporary Debates in Political Philosophy. Hypatia. A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 27(1), 231-236.

(2011). The Ethics and Politics of Teshuvah: Lessons from Emmanuel Levinas and Hannah Arendt. The University of Toronto Journal of Jewish Thought, 2 (epub).

(2011). The Right To Be Children: An Arendtian Exploration of Our Responsibility To Grow Up. Childhood & Philosophy, 7(14), 171-190.

(2010). Reconsidering Rebekah: Struggles with Faith and Jewish Tradition. Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, 15(2), 12-19.

(2008). Creating Citizens in the Classroom. Hannah Arendt’s Political Critique of Education. Ethical Perspectives, 15(2), 259-282.

Chapters in academic book (IHb)

(2024) Race, Religion and Refugees in Europe, Past and Present. Living in A World of Neighbours: Activists and Academics in Conversation about Multi-Faith Refugee Relief, ed. Ryszard Bobrowicz, Anna Hjälm and Ulrich Schmiedel (Eugene, OR: Pickwick).

(2024) What Do Women Have To Do With It? Race, Religion and the Witch Hunts. Purple Brains. Katrine Smiet, Annabelle Dufourcq, Karen Vintges and Annemie Halsema (Eds). Radboud University Press.

(2023) The King of Tars: A Medieval Blueprint for Replacement Theories?  The Politics of Replacement: Demographic Fears, Conspiracy Theories, and Race Wars, Bracke Sarah & Hernandez Aguilar Luis M. (editors). Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right.

(2022) Race, Religion and Refugees: Arendt’s Ambiguous Analysis of Nation-States. Hannah Arendt: Challenges of Plurality.  Maria Robaszkiewicz & Tobias Matzner (Ed.). Springer.

(2020) Race in relation to law and politics. VHI-Bundel Diversiteit Co-author Nawal Mustafa Ed. Claartje Bulten, Charlotte Perquin-Deelen & Mijke Sinnighe Damsté. Van der Heijden Instituut Series. Deventer: Wolters Kluwer.

(2019). Hannah Arendt en Kinderrechten: Het recht om niet te hoeven vechten voor je rechten. Kind, recht en filosofie. de Graaf J. (Ed.) Ars Aequi Libri, Amsterdam: Univ. van Amsterdam.

(2019) Good Jew, Bad Jew: ‘Managing’ Europe’s Others. Islamophobia and Surveillance: Genealogies of a Global Order‘. Ed. James Renton. Routledge Reprint.

(2016). A Tale of Europe’s Identity Crisis by Way of the ‘Judeo-Christian’ Signifier. Is there a Judeo-Christian Tradition? A European Perspective. Topolski A., Nathan E. (Eds.), De Gruyter.

(2016). The Myth of a Judeo-Christian Tradition: Introducing a European Perspective. Is there a Judeo-Christian Tradition? A European Perspective. Topolski A., Nathan E. (Eds.), De Gruyter.

(2016). Hannah Arendt’s Philosophy of Education, Routledge Encyclopaedia of Educational Thinkers. Cooper J. (Eds.) Routledge.

(2015). With Bracke, S., and N. Fadil. Religie, de zevende betekenaar. Vrij(heid) van religie. Coene, G., Van Den Bossche, M. (Eds.), VUB Press.

(2015). Mourning the Loss of My Daughter: The Failure of Inter-Faith Bereavement Rituals. Ritual Participation and Interreligious Dialogue: Boundaries, Transgressions and Innovations. Moyaert M., Geldhof J. (Eds.), Bloomsbury Academic.

(2014). Les origines judaïques de la Vera Religio de Spinoza. L’actualité du Tractatus de Spinoza et la question théologico-politique. Landenne Q., Storme T. (Eds.), Bruxelles: Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles, 121-134.

(2014) Military Robotics & Relationality: Criteria for Ethical Decision-Making. With Lamber Royyakers, L. van den Hoven J. et al. (Eds.), Responsible Innovation 1, (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 351–67.

(2013). Les Droits de l’Homme au-delà de L’Être : À la recherche d’un sens post-fondationniste chez Arendt et Levinas. Arrachement et Evasion: Levinas et Arendt Face à l’Histoire. Baum M., Roviello A. (Eds.), Annales de l’Institut de Philosophie de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, Paris: Vrin, 163-187.

(2013). An Ethics of Relationality: Destabilising the Exclusionary Frame of Us versus Them. Rethinking Political Violence, Genocide, Risk and Resilience: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Ingelaere B et al. (Eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave, 85-97.

(2012). Was European Multiculturalism Destined To Fail?. In: Garner S., Kavak S. (Eds.), Debating Multiculturalism 2. London: Dialogue Society, 85-98.

(2010). Peacekeeping without Banisters: The Need For New Practices That Go Beyond Just War Theory. At War For Peace, M. F. (Eds.). Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 45-56.

(2009). Listening to the Language of the Other. Radical Passivity: Rethinking Ethical Agency in Levinas. Hofmeyr B. (Eds.), Dordrecht: Springer, 180-208.

(2008). On Freedom in Athens and Jerusalem: Arendt’s Political Challenge to Levinas’ Ethics of Responsibility. The Awakening to the Other: A Provocative Dialogue with Emmanuel Levinas Burggraeve R. (Eds.),. Leuven: Peeters, 215-240.

(2007). Universal Political Messianism: A Dialogue with Emmanuel Levinas’ First Talmudic Reading. On the Outlook: Figures of the Messianic. Crombez T., Vloeberghs K. (Eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 141-150.

(2005). The past as a possible obstacle to Poland’s future: dialogue and reconciliation. Eastern Europe and the challenges of globalization. Buksinski T., Dobrzanski D. (Eds.), Washington: CRVP, 271-282.

Article in other academic book (AHb)

(2021) Arendt in tegenlicht. Co-author Nadia Fadil. Hannah Arendt Ingekleurd: Een complexe wereld bekeken door Arendtsogen. Hannah Arendt Instituut. ASP: Academic and Scietific Publishers. 53-78.

(2019) Tien Gedachten over Gedachteloosheid. Hannah Arendt: Leven in waarheid. Ed. Luk Brouckheart. Series:  Spiritualiteit in Economie & Samenleving

(2018) La constellation race-religion: langage, libération et colonialisme. Actes du colloque. Les Modernités Contestées. UCAD, Dakar.

(2014). In verscheidenheid verenigd? De mythe van een Europese eenheid., Europese Gedachten. Beschouwingen over de toekomst van de Europese Unie, De Bom E. (Eds.) Kalmthout – Zoetermeer: Pelckmans – Klement, 95-108.

(2009). “De kinderen in haar lichaam botsten hard tegen elkaar” (Ber 25,22): De Worsteling Tussen Rebekah en Jakob. Worsteling met het word. Moyaert M. (Eds.). Kapellen: Pelckmans: Mens & Tijd, 141-155.

(2016). Mijn Jodendom, Mijn Anarchisme en Milly Witkop’s Tzedekah. (voorwoord) Open de poorten van de vrijheid: Milly Witkop (1877-1955), anarchiste en feminist Siegbert Wolf, (vertaling Johny Lenaerts) Utrecht: Kelderuitgeverij, 9-29.

(2015). Sexisme in de ivoren toren. Co-author Nellie Konijnendijk. #seksisme: Nee. Wij overdrijven niet. (Ed. Catherine Ongenae). Uitgeverij Polis.

Policy Documents

(2024). Advies over voorstel van resolutie betreffende de bestrijding van het antisemitisme ten behoeve van de commissie voor binnenlandse zaken, veiligheid, migratie en bestuurszaken. Belgische federale regering. (DOC 55 3717/0010)

Interview

(2022) On Race and Religion in African political communities: an interview with David Theo Goldberg. Co-author: Nyanchama Okemwa. Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies on the Intersection of Race in Religion in African Political Communities. Co-ed. Josias Tembo. 

Translations

(2009) Sociality and Money by Emmanuel Levinas. Bangalore: Dharmaram Publications.

Reviews (RE)

(2019) The silences of a traumatic rivalry. Review of The Holocaust and the Nakba (Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg (eds). Patterns of Prejudice. Vol 54. Issue 4.

(2018) Breaking the Post-Shoah Silence About Race in Europe: Whiteness, Antisemitism and Islamophobia.  Critical Philosophy of Race. Volume 6, Issue 2.

(2015). Dispatches from the Diaspora: On the Jewish Question, Anti-Semitism, Israel and Zionism. Journal of the British Society of Phenomenology. Vol 46. Issue 4.

(2015). Secularism: The Genealogy of Laïcité in France. Assimilation: From the 19th to the 21st century. Multiculturalism: A Hopeful Plea for Europe. Ethnicities, 15(2), 8-13.

(2015). The Muslims Are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror by Arun Kundnani. Studies in Interreligious Dialogue.

(2012). The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age. Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, 74 (3), 622-623: Peeters Publishers.

(2009). Post-Foundational Political Thought. Political Difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau. Political studies review, 7 (1), 105-105: Blackwell Pub.

(2009). Connecting Heidegger and the Jews?. Tijdschrift voor filosofie, 71 (2), 401-2.

(2008). Yiddish Civilization. Shofar, 26 (2), 187-189: University of Nebraska Press.

(2006). Driven Back to the Text: The Premodern Sources of Levinas’s Postmodernism. Louvain Studies, 31 (3-4), 370-372.