Professional Career

James Bernauer is a Jesuit priest who joined the philosophy faculty in 1980. He has occupied the Visiting Jesuit University Professorship at Loyola University in Chicago and has been a Bannan Visiting Scholar at Santa Clara University. In April 2008 he was named Director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College.

Fields of Interest

• Holocaust Studies
• Philosophies of Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt
• Fascism

Current Teaching

• Hitler, in Search of His Evil (Spring, 2008)
• Hannah Arendt (Spring, 2008)
• Fascisms (Fall, 2008)
• German-Jewish Thinkers (Fall, 2008)

Other Professional Activities

Director, Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College

Recent Publications

• "Secular Self-Sacrifice: On Michel Foucault's Courses at the Collège de France." Forthcoming in Michel Foucault: The Legacy (Continuum).
• "From European Anti-Jesuitism to German Anti-Jewishness: A Tale of Two Texts." Forthcoming in The Substance of Things Hoped For: A Festschrift Honoring Stanislaw Musial.
• "A Catholic Conversation with Hannah Arendt." Friends on the Way: Jesuits Encounter Contemporary Judaism (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007).
• "Philosophizing After the Holocaust." Jesuit Postmodern: Scholarship, Vocation, and Identity in the 21st Century (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006).