Edith Wyschogrod
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Edith Wyschogrod (June 8, 1930[1] – July 16, 2009) was an American philosopher. She received her B.A. from Hunter College in 1951 and her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1970.[1][2]
Wyschogrod joined Rice's Religious Studies Department in 1992, as the J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought; she retired in 2002, and held the title of professor emeritus from 2003.[1] Wyschogrod was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Fellow, 1999), a Guggenheim Fellow (1995–1996), and a fellow of the National Humanities Center (1981).[1] She served one term as president of the American Academy of Religion (1993).[3]
She authored five influential books on ethics.[4] Her work centered on ethical and philosophical themes such as justice and alterity; modern philosophy in light of technologically assisted mass death; and memory and forgetting.[4]
She was the wife of philosopher Michael Wyschogrod.[5] She died July 16, 2009, in New York City at the age of 79.[4]
Wyschogrod's archives are held at Rice University.[6]
