Karen Feldman is Professor of German at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a BA from the University of Chicago and an MA and a PhD in Philosophy from DePaul University. Feldman’s research lies at the intersection of philosophy and literary theory, reflecting a philosophical and literary-critical approach to classic texts of the German literary and philosophical canon, with a strong emphasis in Critical Theory. She has published on works by Johann Christoph Gottsched, G.F. Meier, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Martin Heidegger, Reinhart Koselleck, and Hannah Arendt; and on topics including the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the rhetoric of Marxism, and Cold War effects on US philosophy. She is author of Arts of Connection: Poetry, History, Epochality (De Gruyter, 2019) and Binding Words: Conscience and Rhetoric in Hobbes, Hegel, and Heidegger (Northwestern, 2008), and co-editor of Freud and Monotheism: Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion (Fordham, 2018) and Continental Philosophy: An Anthology (Blackwell, 1998). Feldman has held fellowships from the Fulbright Program, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities” at the Free University of Berlin. She has also conducted research as part of the “Cultural Foundations of Europe” research cluster at the University of Konstanz and the “Enlightenment, Religion, Knowledge” cluster at the University of Halle.