Wild and Levinas

legacy and promise

Richard Sugarman

in: Jung (ed), Remembering John Wild, Continental Philosophy Review 44 (3), 2011.

Abstract

John Wild was my teacher and mentor for almost a decade, from 1963 to 1972. I took numerous courses with him as an undergraduate and graduate student at Yale University, and was writing my doctoral dissertation under his direction when he left to become Professor of Philosophy at the University of Florida. In the late spring of 1970, John Wild invited me to his summer home in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, where he and I could spend some time together speaking philosophy. I assumed the role of Wild’s assistant, a kind of philosophical secretary. In that house were many cartons of papers, some unpublished, that would appear many years later as ThePromiseofPhenomenology: ThePosthumousPapersofJohnWild. I edited and annotated these papers along with Professor Roger Duncan, to whom Wild had introduced me as a graduate student.

Cited authors

Levinas Emmanuel

Wild John