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Nitzan Lebovic is a professor of history and the Apter Chair of Holocaust Studies and Ethical Values at Lehigh University. He is the author of The Philosophy of Life and Death: Ludwig Klages and the Rise of a Nazi Biopolitics (2013) and Zionism and Melancholy: The Short Life of Israel Zarchi (2019) and the coeditor of The Politics of Nihilism (2014) and Catastrophe: A History and Theory of an Operative Concept (2014) as well as the editor of special issues of Rethinking History (Nihilism), Zmanim: Tel-Aviv University Journal of History (Religion and Power), The New German Critique (Political Theology) and Comparative Literature and Culture (Complicity and Dissent).

Articles in Critical Inquiry

Biometrics, or The Power of the Radical Center​
Summer 2015

Book Reviews

• The Poverty of Ethics by Anat Matar
  August 31, 2022
• Heidegger and His Jewish Reception by Daniel M. Herskowitz
  February 08, 2022
• The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators by Michael Rothberg
  January 22, 2020
• The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction by Mark Lilla
  January 12, 2017
• Fire and Blood: The European Civil War, 1914–1945 by Enzo Traverso
  August 09, 2016