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A discussion with Martin Shuster, who teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland where he also directs the Center for Geographies of Justice. He is the author of numerous articles in European and Jewish philosophy, cultural studies, and phenomenology, as well as three authored books: 2014’s Autonomy after Auschwitz: Adorno, German Idealism, and Modernity, published by University of Chicago Press; New Television: The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre, published in 2017 by University of Chicago Press; and the book we are discussing in this episode, How to Measure a World? A Philosophy of Judaism, out with Indiana University Press in late 2021. This conversation covers issues of Judaism's complex composition as a philosophical position, the scope of phenomenology as a method of reading, possibilities for thinking catastrophe in a comparative context, and the meaning of world and worldhood, awe and outrage, in a broken world.