Avi Sagi is Professor of Philosophy, and Founder and Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He is Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Israel. He has written and edited numerous books and articles in Jewish and general philosophy, among them "Religion and Morality" (with Daniel Statman, New York 1995) and the recently released "Judaism: Between Religion and Morality" (Tel Aviv: 1998) and "Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd" (New York 2002).